About This Book
iPad Application Development For Dummies is a beginner’s guide to developing iPad applications. And not only do you not need any iPad development experience to get started, you also don’t need any Macintosh development experience, either. I’ve written this book as though you are coming to iPad application development as a blank slate, ready to be filled with useful information and new ways to do things. Well, almost a blank slate, anyway; see the upcoming “Foolish Assumptions” section for details on what you do need to know before using this book.
Because of the nature of the iPad, you can create small, bite-sized applications that can be quite powerful. Also, because you can start small and create real applications that do something important for a user, it’s relatively easy to transform yourself from an “I know nothing” guy into a developer who, though not (yet) a superstar, can still crank out quite a respectable application.
But the iPad can be home to some pretty fancy software as well — so I take you on a journey through building an industrial-strength application and show you the ropes for developing one on your own.
This book distills the hundreds (or even thousands) of pages of Apple documentation (not to mention my own development experience) into only what’s necessary to start you developing real applications. But this is no recipe book that leaves it up to you to put it all together; rather, it takes you through the frameworks (the code supplied in the ...
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