Mac Application Development by Example: Beginner's Guide: A comprehensive and practical guide, for absolute beginners, to developing your own App for Mac OS X book and ebook.

Robert Wiebe

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Paperback Dec 2012 318 pages 1st Edition

Robert Wiebe

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Paperback Dec 2012 318 pages 1st Edition

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Start developing applications for Mac OS X
Learn how to take advantage of Mac features such as the iSight camera and the multi-touch trackpad
Use Xcode to its full potential to make tasks simpler

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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.

Who is this book for?

This book is for people who are programming beginners and have a great idea for a Mac OS X app and need to get started.

What you will learn

The basic concepts and tools and how to use them to create an OS X application
Access information from the Internet from within a business app to enhance its functionality
Store and retrieve information from Apple s iCloud server farm
Use the debugger to find and fix problems that cause an app to crash
Create a new System Preference that can change the fundamental way the Mac OS system behaves
Capture video from the iSight camera and save it as a Quicktime movie file
Implement a custom view and draw directly into it using the 2D drawing interfaces
Share your app with others in a Gatekeeper-aware and friendly manner

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Aaron Feb 28, 2013

I'm not sure if the same thing is true for the print version of this book but when I went to my PacktPub.com account to download this book to put on my iPad, I found that they had the examples bundled up in a .zip file that I could download, why can't more books do this?! I often find that you end up copying out of the book and it either doesn't work or that you have not properly digested how it works. The advantage of having these demos ready to download is that you can straight away get working code which you can tear apart, change, modify and really get your hands on. I often find this the best learning approach, but it is not for everyone. The book does not cater either way (in a good way) if you want to learn step-by-step then you can, the book guides you though exactly how to do things and more importantly it explains to you what you are writing, why you need it and what it does for the application.Now I was testing out the ePub format on my iPad and did find a few formatting errors with the way the text and tables flow from page to page but it did not effect how the book read at all.I am fairly unfamiliar with the Xcode interface and I only know the basic locations of the popular buttons, I think the interface can be a little bit daunting to some. This book starts right at the beginning and does not expect you to know anything about the interface beforehand, it walks you through all of the things that you need to know and some of the others you will pickup along the way.One thing I did find really useful about the book is the fact that it is laid out in almost three simple steps for each part, it first walks through a little bit about what you are about to do and what it will do for the application, it then has a `Time for action' step which guides you through the actual process, and then the part that I like the most is the `What just happened?' part. That last part is something that I have found lacking in some of the other books I have read (not all though) is that they don't take the time to step back and pause for a second and explain exactly what you just did.

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Ted Nov 01, 2013

OK for beginners, but be aware of a couple of issues:Apple has changed a few things in Xcode 5.0 (latest version for Mavericks), which are not represented correctly in the book. One tricky item in particular is how outlets are assigned in IB for items in the view. The method in the book is no longer supported, so you will have to do some googling.Also, there are a lot of typo's, and missing lines of code in the book examples. If you want to compile and run the code as listed, you will have to add a few things. Not good for a beginner.I will admit, I have not downloaded the .zip file that is supposed to be available to see if that has the correct source code. So far I am on chapter 5 and have been able to figure out how to fix all the issues, as they are minor if you have some experience with XCode. If you are a true beginner, you may struggle with this.Other than those issues, I like the layout of actually creating working applications for each chapter, rather than theoretical ideas.

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