Learning Cocoa With Objective-c
Developing for the Mac and iOS App Stores
O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · April 22, 2014
Get up to speed on Cocoa and Objective-C, and start developing applications on the iOS and OS X platforms.
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- Who it’s for
- Learn Cocoa and Objective-C through Apple development tools, app features, and example projects.
- Themes
- Cocoa and Objective-C programming, Apple app development, App data storage and iCloud
- Genres
- Mac Programming, Mobile App Development, Object-Oriented Programming
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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.
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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 iOS - Work with the user-interface system in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch - Use AV Foundation to display video and audio - Build apps that let users create, edit, and work with documents - Store data locally with the file system, or on the network with iCloud - Display lists or collections of data with table views and collection views - Interact with the outside world with Core Location and Core Motion - Use blocks and operation queues for multiprocessing
Cocoa App Building
Learn Cocoa and Objective-C through Apple development tools, app features, and example projects.
Come here for
- Working with Xcode, Foundation, Event Kit, and Core Animation
- Building example projects, including a video player and calendar app
Expect
- Coverage of app data storage locally and through iCloud
- Work with audio and video, documents, location, motion, and collections
Where it sits
| Mobile App Development | 52% |
|---|---|
| Object-Oriented Programming | 50% |
| Mac Programming | 42% |
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Publisher categories
- Game Dev
- Programming Languages
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Mac Programming
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- Mobile App Development
- Authors
- Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning, Tim Nugent
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media
- Published
- April 22, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Cocoa and Objective-C programming · Apple app development · App data storage and iCloud
- Reading lane
- Game Dev