Beginning iOS Game Center and Game Kit: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Required Software, Materials, and Equipment

To develop iOS software—and more specifically, Game Center and Game Kit–based iOS software—you will first need an Intel-based Mac computer running OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or newer. While you can develop on 10.5, it will not support the most up-to-date release of Xcode. You will also need a copy of Xcode, which you can download for free from the Mac App Store or at http://developer.apple.com. This book has been targeted to work with iOS 5; since it is being released at the time when users will be migrating from iOS 4 to iOS 5, it is also written to support iOS 4. Unless otherwise noted within the text, all code is iOS 4–compatible.

In addition to the software and hardware requirements, you will also ...