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Learn iOS 8 App Development

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  • Learn i. OS 8 App Development is both a rapid tutorial and a useful reference.
  • You'll quickly get up to speed with Swift, Cocoa Touch, and the i. OS 8 SDK.
  • It's an all-in-one getting started guide to building your first i.
  • Phone or i. Pad app.
  • You'll learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and perform well, earning positive reviews on the i. Tunes App Store, and driving better search results and more revenue.

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
  2. Got Tools?

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 1-16
  3. Boom! App

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 17-52
  4. Spin a Web

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 53-86
  5. Coming Events

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 87-121
  6. Table Manners

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 123-161
  7. Object Lesson

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 163-176
  8. Smile!

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 177-201
  9. Model Citizen

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 203-237
  10. Sweet, Sweet Music

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 239-278
  11. Got Views?

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 279-316
  12. Draw Me a Picture

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 317-359
  13. There and Back Again

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 361-419
  14. Sharing Is Caring

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 421-435
  15. Game On!

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 437-481
  16. If You Build It…

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 483-504
  17. Apps with Attitude

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 505-528
  18. Where Are You?

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 529-552
  19. Remember Me?

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 553-583
  20. Doc, You Meant Storage

    • James Bucanek
    Pages 585-617

About this book

Learn iOS 8 App Development is both a rapid tutorial and a useful reference. You'll quickly get up to speed with Swift, Cocoa Touch, and the iOS 8 SDK. It's an all-in-one getting started guide to building useful apps. You'll learn best practices that ensure your code will be efficient and perform well, earning positive reviews on the iTunes App Store, and driving better search results and more revenue.

The iOS 8 SDK offers powerful new features, and this book is the fastest path to mastering them—and the rest of the iOS SDK —for programmers with some experience who are new to iPhone and iPad app development. Many books introduce the iOS SDK, but few explain how to develop apps optimally and soundly. This book teaches both core Swift language concepts and how to exploit design patterns and logic with the iOS SDK, based on Swift and the Cocoa Touch framework.

Why spend months or years discovering the best ways to design and code iPhone and iPad apps when this book will show you how to do things the right way from the start?

  • Get an accelerated treatment of the core fundamentals of Swift.
  • Develop your first app using Xcode's advanced interface design tools.
  • Build your first iPhone app using the code that you're given as you walk through this book.
  • Finally, debug and distribute your first app on Apple's iTunes App Store.
Learn how to create apps for any model of iPhone, the iPod Touch, the iPad, or build universal apps that run on all of them. After reading this book, you'll be creating professional quality apps, ready to upload to the app store, making you the prestige and the money you seek!

About the author

James Bucanek is a professional software engineer, with over 25 years of experience in software and systems development. He is the author of Beginning Xcode and the holder of a network patent. Having made the transition to Mac OS X many years ago, he has never looked back.

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Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access