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iPad Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for iPhone Developers 1st Edition

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It's not an iPhone and it's not a laptop: the iPad is a groundbreaking new device. You need to create true iPad apps to take advantage of all that is possible with the iPad. If you're an experienced iPhone developer, iPad Programming, will show you how to write these outstanding new apps while completely fitting your users' expectation for this device.

Hold an iPad in your hands and you'll know what the fuss is all about. Select an app and the device disappears as you find yourself immersed in the experience--the iPad defines a new category for devices. iPad Programming shows you how to build apps for the iPad that people will love to use.

This quick-start guide will have you writing iPad apps right away using a combination of the familiar iPhone APIs along with the new APIs and additional templates designed specifically for creating iPad applications.

The iPad has a display that's more than seven times as big as the iPhone. The metaphors are different; the application design is different. Users will be able to interact with your iPad app in new ways. In this book you'll learn to take advantage or the additional real estate and functionality.

Every time you turn around it seems as if there's another ten thousand apps added to the App Store for the iPhone. If you're building iPad-specific apps, it's a brand new day with plenty of opportunity. In this book we don't just teach you to write apps that run on an iPad, we teach you to create apps that delight users because they wouldn't make sense running on any other device.
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    Pragmatic Bookshelf
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    November 16, 2010
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  8. Print length
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Daniel H Steinberg wrote "Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start guide for Developers," the Pragmatic Programmers' best selling book on developing Cocoa applications for Snow Leopard. A long-time Mac developer, Daniel also teaches courses on Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPad development for the Pragmatic Studios.

Eric T Freeman is a media company executive and co-author of two bestselling books: "Head First Design Patterns" and "Head First HTML & CSS." A computer scientist with a passion for media and software architectures, Eric has been an Apple programmer since the days of the Newton. Eric holds a Ph.D. from Yale University.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1934356573
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1st edition (November 16, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781934356579
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934356579
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.85 x 9 inches
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    Eric is described by Head First series co-creator Kathy Sierra as “one of those rare individuals fluent in the language, practice, and culture of multiple domains from hipster hacker, corporate VP, engineer, think tank.” Professionally, Eric recently ended nearly a decade as a media company executive—having held the position of CTO of Disney Online at The Walt Disney Company. Eric is now devoting his time to WickedlySmart, a startup he co-created with Elisabeth Robson.

    By training, Eric is a computer scientist, having studied with industry luminary David Gelernter during his Ph.D. work at Yale University. His dissertation is credited as the seminal work in alternatives to the desktop metaphor, and also as the first implementation of activity streams, a concept he and Dr. Gelernter developed.

    In his spare time, Eric is deeply involved with music; you’ll find Eric’s latest project, a collaboration with ambient music pioneer Steve Roach, available on the iPhone app store under the name Immersion Station.

    Eric lives with his wife and young daughter on Bainbridge Island. His daughter is a frequent vistor to Eric’s studio, where she loves to turn the knobs of his synths and audio effects. Eric’s also passionate about kids education and nutrition, and looking for ways to improve them.

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Edward M. Bender
3.0 out of 5 stars Half of a really good book
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2010
I applaud the authors selection of topics, and I like that most of the examples in the book are short and sweet applications. The book is written in a stepwise tutorial fashion, with fairly good explanations for the steps involved. However, it seems like the authors were trying to conserve paper by forgetting to put in necessary steps or by referencing code in the download files rather than including them in the tutorial steps themselves. If a reader is going through a stepwise progression to get to the final product, the absence of critical methods described within the text really interrupts the orderly flow of the tutorial. When learning a technique for the first time, this really matters! This is especially so in the movie player chapters. There are some really interesting techniques left out that could have made the experience more fun and efficient. My suggestion: don't worry about a shortage of paper or ink and tell the whole story.
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Mr. C. Oliff
4.0 out of 5 stars Recommended quick-start guide for existing iPhone developers
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2011
`iPad Programming' is designed as a quick-start guide for existing iPhone developers to get to grips with developing for iPad. Over the course of 13 chapters and 228 pages, the authors Daniel Steinberg and Eric Freeman take us through a number of key development concepts using straight-forward explainations and examples. The example code can be downloaded online so you can learn with them.

As an existing beginner iPhone developer myself, I found the first chapter very helpful as it talks through converting an existing iPhone app so that it runs on both iPhone and iPad (a `Universal' app). New iPad-specific functions such as split-view are explained, and in later chapters, custom keyboards, custom drawing, gestures and connecting to other devices are all covered. Key concepts are not explored in massive detail, but that's not the point of this book - it's a quick-start guide to get you quickly up and running... and it works! I had coded my first iPad app after just one day with this book and Steinberg and Freeman's explanation's are informal and easy to read which made me keen to learn more,

If I had to draw any negatives from the book, I'd mention the issue that inevitably all other technology/software books, the content ages quite quickly. Even though this title was only published in September 2010, just five months ago - iOS 4 has since been released for iPad, bringing a lot of changes and new functionality to developers (Airprint, Airplay, GameCenter, multitasking and lots more). The good news is that `iPad Programming' chapters and code examples are all still relevant and work well, its just that you won't see any coverage here of the new features of iOS 4.

Recommended quick-start guide for existing iPhone developers looking to expand to iPad development.
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Jaromir Siska
1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy!
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2012
I quite liked the book when it was published nevertheless it is getting not up to date. The worst problem is with the examples. They were prepared at spring 2010 and many of them do not work. There is a discussion on the WEB of Pragmatic Programmer nevertheless the authors do not respond. At this moment there is a lot of much better books. Do not waste your money!
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4.0 out of 5 stars 一読の価値があります
Reviewed in Japan on August 8, 2015
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　題名に「iPhone開発者のための」とありますが、私はiPhoneを使ったことがないので、別の参考書もあわせて勉強しました。

　著者がいちばんいいたいのは、「iPhoneとiPadはハードウェアの設計思想が違う。だからプログラマーも、iPhoneの延長ではなくて、iPadらしいプログラムを書くべきだ」ということらしいです。なるほどサンプルのプログラムを読むと、iPadの特長を生かした、おもしろい作品が並んでいます。私が自分のためのプログラムを書くとき、技術的にもずいぶん役に立ちました。

　アップルの提供する開発ツールXcodeがどんどん改良されているので、原作のままでは動かないサンプルもありますが、買って損はないと思います。
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