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iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual 1st Edition

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Anyone with programming experience can learn how to write an iPhone app. But if you want to build a great app, there's a lot more to it than simple coding: you also need to know how design and market your creation. This easy-to-follow guide walks you through the entire process, from sketching out your idea to promoting the finished product.

Get to know the tools for developing your iPhone app
Design a great app before you start coding
Build a complex app with Xcode and Interface Builder
Decide how to brand your app-then beta-test that brand in the real world
Learn the inside scoop on how to get your app into the App Store
Promote your product, track sales, and build a strong customer following

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Craig Hockenberry has been working with images and software for over 30 years. He is currently a principal at the Iconfactory, a company that has been changing the face of the computer desktop since 1996. Their work includes the design & production of icons for Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and other leading software companies.

He's also responsible for the secret control panels at Icon Factory, a website that gives away about 2 terabytes of pixels every month, and keeps many fellow designers informed and entertained.

Craig also loves writing cool software, and thinks that Cocoa and Quartz (for the desktop and iPhone) and Ruby and Rails (for the Web) are the greatest things since sliced bread.

In past lives, Craig has built robots, processed satellite imagery, and created effects filters for Photoshop.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (June 8, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 338 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596809778
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596809775
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.02 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.73 x 9.19 inches

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obecka dell

CHOCKLOCK rules! Useful advice from a software engineer.

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2010

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As the series tag says, this book should have been included in the Xcode box. I haven't finished reading it but it already has provided me solid nuggets of information that I had not yet gleaned in a couple of years of iPhone development and has saved me dev time and improved my implementation cleanliness (many thanks to the author for that).

Prior to getting this book, I had been aware of the author's sage advice on his blog and twitter feed. The author is the real deal and this book does not disappoint.

Building an iPhone app from start to finish, this book explains the dev environment, language, app design and app management process, while simultaneously managing to discusses the pros and cons of various tradeoffs you need to make an app. I am impressed at its conciseness and the conveyed depth of understanding of what it takes to get a robust, shipping product. The specific information about using the command line versions of various Xcode tools is something that I haven't seen elsewhere and am finding it extremely helpful.

If you are looking to polish your iphone app dev skills, or just make them more AWESOME!!!, this book will help.

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Bakari Chavanu

Not for beginners

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2010

My review is not to negate the 5-star reviews, but I'm already totally frustrated with this book. The author starts off with a really simple template project (flashlight app), but then he spends like the next three chapters explaining Objective-C without using or referring to any exercise to help beginners make sense of what he is explaining. At the beginning of some sections he says, By now you have a good understanding of such and such; and I'm thinking, I do? Why not refer back to the flashlight app code to explain the language?

I'm heading back the Dummies book on Objective-C. This one is clearly not for beginners.

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J. Silk

Not for the beginner!

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2011

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This book is not for the beginner on iPhone programming. The tutorials and sample code require the reader to already be quite familiar with Objective-C, and the author does not provide clear explanations. The FEW sample programs only provide a limited introduction to the features available in iPhone programming, and are difficult to implement. However, the book does provide useful information regarding the Apple Developer site and submitting Applications to the App store.

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Baoliang Zeng

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2015

Great book.

Great overview of the whole iPhone dev process

Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2010

This is a great book for new iPhone application developers looking for a good place to get started. Even if you're familiar with C or C++, Objective C takes a little bit of getting used to. This book takes the reader through the entire development lifecycle of an iPhone application--from the very beginning with installing Xcode and the iPhone SDK, through the end with getting your application released in the App Store.

While the book is not designed to be comprehensive, it won't be the reference that intermediate or advanced iPhone developers will be looking for. However, for those just getting started, it's just right. After showing how to configure the Xcode environment, the author goes through the basics of Objective C and the ins and outs of the language. The author proceeds through the process of how great iPhone apps are designed. Finally, the author shows how to submit your application to the iTunes store and what to expect out of the process. You won't find a lot of coding examples, aside from the Objective C introduction. In other words, there aren't any "how-to's" in this book, which is fine, since much of that can be retrieved online.

Where I really felt this book provided value was in the overall discussion of how to begin, design, and submit your application. There aren't a lot of good references out there which show the whole process, and I found this book to be one of the best. I'd recommend this book to developers who want to get started with iPhone development--especially those developers who just installed Xcode and are asking "now what?".

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Benjamin Golding

More than just a review of the developer tools

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2010

This book covers the ins and outs of development for the iPhone environment and does that well. Where I feel it really excels is where it covers the areas that immediately surround the development, the parts that aren't just "how to write the code and use the libraries".

The options that are available for structuring a project are many but sometimes choosing the simplest winds up leaving you in a straightjacket further on through development. Hockenberry finds a good balance of trying to keep things as simple as possible but not so simple that there's no flexibility. Each time I took off and did things without consulting the book I'd find myself wishing I'd taken a little more time to take on his wisdom first. For example, the discussion on how to leave space so you can work with outside designers to do the images for a project and bring those into development are great.

Where I felt the book really gave me an enormous head start was in dealing with the certificates that Apple use for signing apps when transferring them to the iOS devices and uploading to the app store. The canny and thoughtful coverage of this tar pit saved me hours of time and effort (and hair) and this aspect alone made the book absolutely invaluable.

Another topic I haven't seen covered elsewhere is tracking the sales of your application using the iTunes store and the tools there, the impact that different strategies have on the sales of the app and so on. it's all well and good to talk about how to do the coding but it's getting your app to as many people as possible which drives development. It's almost a relief to find someone shining a light here and talking about it coherently.

Once I had the hang of app development, this was a book that I kept by my side and constantly referred to.

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