Ipad Application Development with Iphone SDK: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Campbell, Duncan

• ISBN13: 9780321741752
• ISBN10: 0321741757
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-02
• Publisher: Pearson P T R

Summary

The perfect task-based tutorial for developers who need a solid understanding iPhone SDK 4 for iOS 4 application development Covers the iPhone SDK 4 for iOS 4. A Complete tutorial and reference for creating applications for the iPad. Author is a experienced iPhone application developer with practical experience. Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn. With a rich set of over 1,500 APIs, iPhone SDK 4 provides an amazing range of technologies to enhance and create applications for the iPad. This book focuses on the parts of the SDK that are specifically geared toward the iPad. Everything is covered to create a complete application. New functionality in SDK 4 for iOS 4 includes: Multitasking: Allows apps to perform tasks in the background while preserving battery life and performance. iAd: Apple's new mobile advertising platform. Game Center: allows you to create apps that will work with Game Center, Apple's new social gaming network. Duncan Campbell (Sydney, Australia) runs his own consultancy specializing in Mac and iPhone development. A graduate of the University in Scotland (Aberdeen), he emigrated to Canada 1993 and to Australia in 2004. He has been a professional software developer since 1993 and released his first iPhone application (Conversion) to the App Store in July 2008.