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It’s in magazines and newspapers, it’s on television and radio, it’s on busses and billboards and pretty much everywhere you look (except for Apple stores, where it’s likely still sold out). The iPad is the hot new touchscreen tablet from Apple, representing the next generation of mobile computing.
Packed with dozens of new features, the iOS 3.2 SDK enables you to build sophisticated, desktop-quality apps for this exciting new platform. Every iPhone and iPod touch app developer looking to take the next step and move into the iPad arena will want to read this book from cover to cover.
Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK has all the answers, and you’ll find them presented with the same easy-to-follow style and thorough coverage you’ve come to expect from titles like Beginning iPhone 3 Development—everything an aspiring iPad developer needs to know to create great apps.
Best-selling authors Jack Nutting, Dave Wooldridge, and Dave Mark show iPhone developers how to master all of the iPad-exclusive frameworks and features, which are explained, demonstrated in action, and put through their paces in this comprehensive programming guide. You’ll get a detailed understanding of the new feature set and gain every possible advantage in the iTunes App Store.
What you’ll learn
- How to design app interfaces optimized for the iPad by taking advantage of new UIKit features such as Popovers, Split View Controllers, and new Modal Views.
- How to utilize new graphics functionality, Core Text, Document Sharing, and advanced input methods to build powerful productivity solutions.
- How to embrace the iPad’s superior media capabilities with its new video and display options.
- How to convert an existing iPhone project into a stand-alone iPad app or a Universal app for both iPhone and iPad users.
Since many of the new features in iOS 3.2 are also present in iOS 4, this is one of the first books available in print that extensively covers several of the new APIs that iPhone developers are also eager to learn for creating iOS 4-optimized apps.
Who this book is for
This book is for all iPhone app developers who want to leverage their skills to create professional apps for the iPad.
Complete Source Code Provided
Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers includes extensive example projects and the complete source code for Dudel, a full-fledged drawing app for the iPad.
Table of Contents
- Welcome to the Paradigm Shift
- Getting Started with iPad Development
- Exploring the iPhone SDK's New iPad Features
- New Graphics Functionality
- Using Core Text
- Popovers
- Video and Display
- Split Views and Modal Modes
- New Input Methods
- Working with Documents
- From iPhone to iPad
- Additional Resources for iPad Development
About the Author
Jack Nutting has been using Cocoa since the olden days, long before it was even called Cocoa. He's used Cocoa and its predecessors to develop software for a wide range of industries and applications including gaming, graphic design, online digital distribution, telecommunications, finance, publishing, and travel. When he's not working on Mac or iPhone projects, he's developing web applications with Ruby on Rails. Jack is a passionate proponent of Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks; At the drop of a hat, he will speak at length on the virtues of dynamic dispatch and runtime class manipulations to anyone who'll listen (and even to some who won’t). He blogs from time to time at www.nuthole.com.
As the founder of Electric Butterfly, Dave Wooldridge has been developing award-winning web sites and software for 15 years. When he’s not creating Mac and iPhone apps, he can be found writing. Dave is the author of The Business of iPhone App Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed and has written numerous articles for leading tech publications, including a monthly software marketing column for MacTech Magazine. Follow Dave at Twitter.com/ebutterfly
Dave Mark is a long-time Mac developer and author and has written a number of books on Macintosh development, including Learn C on the Macintosh, The Macintosh Programming Primer series, and Ultimate Mac Programming. His blog can be found at www.davemark.com.
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1. The Source download for the book does not match the text always, and is cause for great confusion in following the author's steps.
2. The Author leaves out key steps/parts from time to time and someone with little experience would encounter errors when building the project
3. I've read several books and taken college classes on iOS programming, and the author takes a different approach than I'm used to, so I find it hard to follow at times.
4. I wish the sample chapter wasn't just background on iPad, so I could have seen a sample project before purchasing.
5. There is no published Errata for the book online, not even a user forum to discuss the code errors.
6. Some sections in the book do not work, while you build the same project from the downloaded source code, and it builds fine.
7. Not all the code works, but builds OK. For example, in the Dudel project, setting stroke widths, only works on the pencil tool, but no other tool.
8. Not all the downloaded Projects from each Chapter Build, and give compiler errors and warnings. So hard to double check your own work.
9. Memory warnings appear on Downloaded Source and Following book's code.
10. Following the book on the VGA out chapter will not work, but the downloaded source does.
11. In one chapter Author says to delete a XIB file, while the Source Downloaded still has it, and includes a Text file telling you to delete it. Why not just have it read to go?
12. Various Typos: Text says to create FileListViewController.h/.m while book code says FileListController.h/.m
13. Author references Frameworks, but doesn't always tell you to add to project. Some chapters it is mentioned, some not.
This book definitely has not been checked for errors and inconsistencies. I wish others in their reviews alerted me to these fallacies so I would not have purchased this book. What a waste of money.
Hopefully this will help someone else out in the future. If the Author corrects the mistakes and creates a detailed Errata and Forum, I would be happy to change this review. Or, better yet, issue a new revision to correct the mistakes.
I've been spending a lot of time learning more general Cocoa frameworks which work on iPhone, iPad and osx like Core Data and haven't really studied much of the iPad sdk since.
I really didn't know what to expect from this book and found it hard to see how an entire book could be filled with iPad specific stuff. There is - of course - a lot of new stuff in the iPad sdk such as bezier paths, creation of pdf files, a new framework called Core Text, Popovers, enhanced movie player controllers, split view controllers, modal presentation styles, new input methods, gesture recognizers, document support and you'll be happy to hear that this book covers them all.
The book shows most of the new functionalities by building a graphics app called Dudel. As the chapters in the book progress, more and more new features are added to Dudel. I've seen this approach in more books and I like it: not only does it give a more practical understanding of new functionality, you also learn how the authors structure their apps. There's much to be learnt from just that.
Apress continues to deliver quality books for iPhone and iPad development. I've been through this book about 3 times now and everytime I find something new. If you have been playing with iPhone development and are considering stepping up to the iPad, then this book will be a _very_ good companion.
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