December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
485 pages
15h 47m
English
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C H A P T E R 3
Xcode and the Kernel Development Environment
Apple has a good track record of taking care of its developers and providing them with intuitive, user-friendly tools and APIs to develop for the Mac and iOS platforms. Anyone who has written application software for the Mac or iPhone will be familiar with the object-oriented Cocoa framework, which provides a rich set of interfaces to support graphical user interfaces and other services required by user applications. Likewise, kernel developers are provided with APIs that are designed to help with the tasks performed by a kernel extension. For driver development, Apple provides the I/O Kit, which is an object-oriented framework for interfacing with hardware. The following chapter ...