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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have implemented an application that uses a toolbar and two table views backed by a mutable array that contains mutable dictionaries and arrays. The backing data was stored in iCloud rather than on the local computer so that multiple copies of the App running on different computers can access the data on iCloud and iCloud will push changes that occurred on one computer to the other.

Specifically, we covered what is iCloud and what entitlements are required to use iCloud. Then we looked at how to manage multiple table views and how to implement a toolbar. Next, we covered how to read and write key-value pairs to iCloud. We finished by looking at how to register for notifications of changes from iCloud and how to use those notifications to update our program data.

Now that we have spent some time looking at business applications and data synchronization we are going to move on to something a bit more fun and look at some of the multi-touch features of Mac OS X. Every...