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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By : Robert Wiebe
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Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide

By: Robert Wiebe

Overview of this book

It's never been more important to have the ability to develop an App for Mac OS X. Whether it's a System Preference, a business app that accesses information in the Cloud, or an application that uses multi-touch or uses a camera, you will have a solid foundation in app development to get the job done.Mac Application Development by Example takes you through all the aspects of using the Xcode development tool to produce complete working apps that cover a broad range of topics. This comprehensive book on developing applications covers everything a beginner needs to know and demonstrates the concepts using examples that take advantage of some of the most interesting hardware and software features available.You will discover the fundamental aspects of OS X development while investigating innovative platform features to create a final product which take advantage of the unique aspects of OS X.Learn how to use Xcode tools to create and share Mac OS X apps. Explore numerous OS X features including iCloud, multi-touch trackpad, and the iSight camera.This book provides you with an illustrated and annotated guide to bring your idea to life using fundamental concepts that work on Mac.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mac Application Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – accessing iCloud for key-value storage


Because we are going to store our numbers in iCloud using a key-value pairing, we need to use a key to access the value. Since iCloud will automatically associated the key with our App's bundle identifier, it can be any arbitrary value. We will choose to use @"numbers".

  1. Add the following define to BTSAppDelegate.h to create the key:

    // Define the key that we will use
    // to access our numbers in the 
    // iCloud key / value data store
    #define kBTSNCNumbersKey @"numbers"
  2. Add the code to BTSAppDelegate.m that creates the mutable array we will use to store our numbers. This code will first try to load the numbers from iCloud and if they are not found in iCloud then it will create a new empty NSMutableArray object as shown in the following code snippet:

    // This method is invoked automatically
    // when our App finishes launching
    - (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:
            (NSNotification *)aNotification
    {
        // Insert code here to initialize...