Learning Cocoa with Objective-C
Developing for the Mac and iOS App Stores
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- £22.99
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- £22.99
Publisher Description
Get up to speed on Cocoa and Objective-C, and start developing applications on the iOS and OS X platforms. If you don’t have experience with Apple’s developer tools, no problem! From object-oriented programming to storing app data in iCloud, the fourth edition of this book covers everything you need to build apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
You’ll learn how to work with the Xcode IDE, Objective-C’s Foundation library, and other developer tools such as Event Kit framework and Core Animation. Along the way, you’ll build example projects, including a simple Objective-C application, a custom view, a simple video player application, and an app that displays calendar events for the user.
Learn the application lifecycle on OS X and iOSWork with the user-interface system in Cocoa and Cocoa TouchUse AV Foundation to display video and audioBuild apps that let users create, edit, and work with documentsStore data locally with the file system, or on the network with iCloudDisplay lists or collections of data with table views and collection viewsInteract with the outside world with Core Location and Core MotionUse blocks and operation queues for multiprocessing
Customer Reviews
Brushing over
I bought this book to learn objective-C and develop apps for MacOS. I have a long experience in old programming langage, but never jumped into the Object Oriented boat.
This book is somehow a bit too light in comparison with what I was expecting from it. The problem for this book is that the documentation produced by Apple is very good. And quite a few times in the book, when things get interesting, it refers you for more reading of the Apple documentation. A bit short.
If you want more of the nitty-gritty, I would recommend another book: Cocoa programming for Mac OS X by the Big Nerd Ranch.