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The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Apps with Web Standards (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript)
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The Web Designer’s Guide to iOS Apps: Create iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad Apps with Web Standards (HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript)

by Kristofer Layon
December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 50m
English
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3. Fundamentals of the IOS SDK

Chefs have kitchens.Stylists have salons.Physicians have clinics.Mechanics have garages.

And Apple mobile app designers have the iOS Software Development Kit (SDK).

Like the rest of these workspaces, you won’t necessarily use all the available features all the time. In fact, you may never use certain features. And if you’re like me, you’ll probably never try some of the things that are available in Xcode.

But we can’t design apps without Xcode and Simulator, so this chapter explores some basics about how to use them as you work your way through the rest of the book. And, you’ll begin to appreciate just how well you’ve tricked them out with the addition of NimbleKit!

Xcode, the integrated development environment ...

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