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Madhur Bhargava
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Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.
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Setting Up Your System to Write iOS Applications


Just like Android, iOS needs no formal introduction; however, we will go over some key knowledge factors related to it. iOS or iPhone OS is a mobile operating system which was developed by Apple Inc. and first introduced in June 2007 exclusively for Apple devices:

Figure 11: Devices supported by iOS; source: www.macworld.com

Note that one of the biggest differences between Android and iOS is that Apple designed iOS as an operating system, which was exclusively designed for Apple hardware. On the other hand, Android took more of a platform approach, which dictated a set of requirements and then the phone manufacturers could roll out devices adhering to these requirements. Also, this implies that iOS is closed source whereas Android is open source.

Just like Android, iOS also has a version history starting right from iPhone OS 1 and currently at the time of writing of this book, iOS 10 which was introduced in September 2016:

Figure 12: iOS Device...

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Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.
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