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...
The sexy, elegant design of the Apple PowerBook combined with the Unix-like OS X operating system based on FreeBSD, have once again made OS X the Apple of every hackers eye. In this unique and engaging book covering the brand new OS X 10.4 Tiger, the worlds foremost true hackers unleash the power of OS X for everything form cutting edge research...
This book is an intermediate-level introduction to Xcode 4, Apple’s integrated
development environment. It assumes you have some development experience
and are familiar with the Cocoa API. It won’t teach you how to write code or much
at all about Cocoa. There are other books for that. This one is strictly focused on...
This book serves two goals: introducing new developers to iOS development, and educating
experienced developers about the tools and technologies available in iOS 5. We will
examine a wide range of subjects—some new and some old—covering everything from
building an initial iOS project to submitting your app to the iTunes...
Interested in iPhone and iPad apps development? Want to learn more? Whether you are a relative newcomer to iPhone and iPad or iOS development or an old hand looking to expand your horizons, we have the perfect Swift-flavored book for you. (Source code has been updated to reflect Xcode 6.3.2 and Swift 1.2!)
This book presents specifications and standards for the Apple Macintosh technology cited in the PowerPC Microprocessor Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) specification.
The CHRP specification is a joint publication of Apple Computer, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, and Motorola, Inc. It defines a common hardware...
The team that brought you the bestselling Beginning iPhone Development is back again for Beginning iOS 7 Development, bringing this definitive guide up-to-date with Apple's latest and greatest iOS 7 SDK, as well as with the latest version of Xcode.
There’s coverage of brand-new technologies, including a...
As more and more vulnerabilities are found in the Mac OS X (Leopard) operating system, security researchers are realizing the importance of developing proof-of-concept exploits for those vulnerabilities. This unique tome is the first book to uncover the flaws in the Mac OS X operating system—and how to deal with them. Written by two white hat...
Apple has a history of alternating its releases between user-focus and developer-focus. The good news about iOS 5 is that it's all about the developers. The
addition of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) alone is worth the upgrade for developers. In one move, Apple has eliminated the number one cause of
crashes in iOS applications,...
The mobile phone—specifically the iPhone, which continues to define the state of the
art for smartphones—has become the primary interface device for geographicallytagged
data.
Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location...
Sprinters apparently reach their highest speed right out of the blocks, and spend the rest of the race slowing down. The winners slow down the least. It’s that way with most startups too. The earliest phase is usually the most productive. That’s when they have the really big ideas. Imagine what Apple was like when 100 percent of its...
