Interest in developing apps for Apple’s iOS platform continues to rise, and more great apps
appear in Apple’s App Store every day. As people like you join the app-creation party, they usually
discover that their apps must store data on iOS devices to be useful. Enter Pro Core Data for iOS,
written for developers who...
Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with...
Have you been tasked with getting iPhones into the hands of your business
executives, and need to ensure they can reliably and securely access corporate
e-mail? This book will teach you what you need to know about getting Exchange
2010 set up and then help you deploy iPhones in a secure and manageable way.
If you’re an iOS app developer, chances are you’ll be using table views somewhere in your development projects. Table views are the bread and butter of iOS apps. With them, you can create everything from the simplest of lists to fully tricked-out user interfaces. Table views are one of the more complex components found in UIKit....
Whether you’re a new iPhone or iPad user who just purchased
an Apple mobile device that runs iOS 5, or you’re a veteran
iPhone and/or iPad user who has upgraded your device to
run the latest and greatest of Apple’s mobile device operating
systems, you’re in for an...
The release of the Unreal Development Kit is really the first time a powerful 3D commercial game
engine has been available to the masses of ordinary people for free. The underlying technology
has been used for numerous high-quality commercial triple-A games that you see in the retail
stores in the United States and around the...
On your computer screen is the most exciting new release of Windows in the last 10
years: Windows 7. This Quick Start Guide will get you up and running with Windows in
no time. You’ll learn what’s new in Windows 7, how to find your way around the
Windows 7 desktop, where to find your programs and documents, and several...
THE AMAZING SUCCESS OF THE IPHONE and iPad over the past four years has proven that
application developers are now smack deep in a brave new world of sophisticated, multifunctional
mobile applications. No longer do applications and various media need to live in separate silos.
Instead, mobile web-based applications can bring...
The arrival of the iPhone changed everything. Or, at the very least, it changed the
direction of software development for mobile platforms, which is a pretty big thing. It
has spawned an entire generation of copycat devices and brought an entire multibilliondollar
industry to its knees. Despite this, it still fits...
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,...
Ostensibly, you buy a computer or gadget to get something done. The something might be as
simple as listening to MP3s you’ve ripped from your CD collection or as challenging as creating
a full-length feature film. Apple is happy to sell you products to meet your needs. The trouble is
your needs aren’t...
OpenGL ES technology underlies the user interface and graphical capabilities exhibited by Apple’s iOS devices, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The “ES” stands for Embedded Systems, and the same technology applies to video game consoles and aircraft cockpit displays, as well as a wide range of cell phones...