iPhone and iPad Apps for Absolute Beginners / Edition 4

by Rory Lewis, Laurence Moroney

Overview

This update of an Apress bestseller walks you through creating your first app, with plain English and practical examples using the latest iOS 7 software development platform and more. It cuts through the fog of jargon and misinformation that surrounds iPhone and iPad app development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started.

• Teaches iPhone and iPad apps development in language anyone can understand
• Provides simple, step-by-step examples that make learning easy, using iOS 7
• Offers bonus videos from the author that enable you to follow along—it’s like your own private classroom

The iPhone is the hottest gadget of our generation, and much of its success has been fueled by the App Store, Apple’s online marketplace for iPhone apps. Over 1 billion apps were downloaded during the nine months following the launch of the App Store, ranging from the simplest games to the most complex business apps. Everyone has an idea for the next best-selling iPhone app—that’s why you’re reading this now! And with the popularity of the iPad, this demand will just continue to grow.

What you’ll learn

• Get both yourself and your computer set up for iPhone and iPad application development
• Start by making small changes to existing applications to build your knowledge and experience before creating your own applications
• Follow steps in plain English to build simple apps and get them working immediately
• Style your application so that it looks good and users can easily navigate through it
• Use shortcuts and cheat sheets to create apps the easy way

Who this book is for

If you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad app, but have never programmed before, then this is the book for you. You don’t need any previous computer programming skills—as long as you have a desire to learn, and you know which end of the mouse is which, you’ll be fine.

Table of Contents

1. Getting the tools
2. Your first app
3. Running your app on a device
4. Your second app
5. Going deeper: Patterns and Delegates
6. Debugging
7. Common Controls
8. Pickers and Date Pickers
9. Tables and Table Views
10. Maps
11. Browser and Web Applications
12. iPad Applications

13. App Store Deployment

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430263616
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/24/2013
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Rory Lewis is assistant professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He is often mistaken for�a hippie, wearing Dead-head shirts and walking aimlessly around the campus. He is often described as the guy in the office where students are always lined up outside. He is often heralded as the dude that will explain your math and computer code, even when he first checks and sees you�ve done 800 tweets and 2,700 Facebook comments while you should have been in class! He is described by his adult daughters as a dad that was once a successful microprocessor litigation lawyer in Palo Alto, but couldn�t resist his dorkiness and went back to school to become a doctor of geekdom!

Laurence Moroney is the director of technology evangelism at Mainsoft, the cross-platform development company. He has over 10 years in software development and architecture, specializing in interoperability, security and performance in such diverse industries as casinos, jails, the U.S. Border Patrol, airports, professional soccer teams and financial services. He has written several books on computing, including some on Web Services Security, ASP.NET and Java/.NET interoperability, as well as dozens of articles on various technology issues. He lives in Sammamish, Washington with his wife, Rebecca, and children, Claudia and Christopher. His blog is at Philotic.com, where you can find lots of Atlas and other development resources.

Table of Contents

Before We Get Started.- Blast-Off!.- What’s Next?.- An Introduction to the Code.- Buttons & Labels with Multiple Graphics.- Switch View with Multiple Graphics.- Dragging, Rotating, and Scaling.- Table Views, Navigation, and Arrays.- MapKit.