- Choosing an Application Framework for Windows Phone 7 Application Development
- May 29, 2012
- There are two application frameworks for Windows Phone 7 application development: Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft XNA Framework. Each offer different strengths and weaknesses. By the end of this hour, you will be introduced to both the Silverlight and XNA frameworks.
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- Getting Started with Android App Development for the Kindle Fire
- May 21, 2012
- Shane Conder and Lauren Darcey explain the Eclipse development environment, show you how to create your first Android project, review and compile working Android code, and run your newly created Android application on the Android emulator as well as on a real Kindle Fire.
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- Providing Live Touch Feedback in iOS App Demos Using TOUCHkit
- May 2, 2012
- Erica Sadun developed a tool called TOUCHkit that allows you to show user interaction on iOS devices in app demos. She describes the tool and its use in this article.
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- Waiting for Siri: Why Apple's Personal Assistant Isn't on the iPad (Yet)
- Mar 19, 2012
- Bestselling author and TUAW.com blogger Erica Sadun explains why there are some good technical reasons preventing Apple from bringing Siri to the iPad without some fundamental development work.
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- The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Documents and Data Sharing
- Mar 14, 2012
- This chapter introduces the ways you can integrate document, defaults, and data sharing between applications. You’ll see how to integrate these features into your applications and use them smartly to make your app a cooperative citizen of the iOS ecosystem.
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- Android Apps with App Inventor: The Development Environment
- Mar 13, 2012
- This chapter introduces you to working with App Inventor’s development environment. While becoming familiar with the individual work areas and functions of AI, you will have the opportunity to create your very first app project and be able to admire the result on your Android smartphone.
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- Android Wireless Application Development: Writing Your First Android Application
- Mar 12, 2012
- In this chapter, you learn how to add and create Android projects in Eclipse and verify that your Android development environment is set up correctly. You also write and debug your first Android application in the software emulator and on an Android device.
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- The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: iCloud Basics
- Mar 7, 2012
- This chapter introduces iCloud, shows you how it works, introduces the key classes you’ll use, and walks you through several recipes and code snippets that show you how to use it in your own projects.
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- New Objective-C Runtime Features in OS X 10.7 and iOS 5
- Mar 6, 2012
- The latest versions of the Objective-C runtimes shipped with iOS, Mac OS X, and even GNUstep provide several new features. David Chisnall looks at a few of these features.
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- Exploring Xcode's Interface Builder
- Feb 29, 2012
- John Ray introduces you to Interface Builder: the remarkable user interface editor integrated into Xcode. Interface Builder provides a visual approach to application interface design that is fun, intuitive, and deceptively powerful.
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- App Developers' Fortunes Rise and Fall on App Category Changes
- Feb 8, 2012
- eff Hughes discusses how apps that once sold well are being affected by the shift in categories.
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- Programming in Objective-C
- Jan 23, 2012
- To help you understand the steps involved in keying in a program and compiling and running it, this chapter shows you how to write your first simple Objective-C program.
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- Objective-C Memory Management
- Jan 19, 2012
- This chapter provides a broad look at memory management in Objective-C.
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- Learning iPad Programming: Tips for Writing a Universal App (Podcast Transcript)
- Jan 17, 2012
- Would you rather write one app than two? Kirby Turner describes how to approach writing an app that runs on both iPad and iPhone. This tip is provided in association with his book Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building iPad Apps with iOS 5.
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- Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building iPad Apps with iOS 5 (Podcast Transcript)
- Jan 16, 2012
- Kirby Turner discusses key concepts from his book Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building iPad Apps with iOS 5. In this interview, he describes the target audience for the book, how his book differs from other books on similar topics, and what you can expect to gain from reading the book and learning what it teaches.
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- Learning iPad Programming: Using Gesture Recognizers (Podcast Transcript)
- Jan 13, 2012
- In conjunction with the release of his book Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building iPad Apps with iOS 5, Kirby Turner shares a tip on working with gesture recognition on the iPad.
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- Learning iPad Programming: Accessing the Photo Library (Podcast Transcript)
- Jan 12, 2012
- Kirby Turner, author of Learning iPad Programming: A Hands-on Guide to Building iPad Apps with iOS 5, compares the two ways of accessing photos from the Photo Library in iOS, pointing out the advantages of the AssetsLibrary framework.
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- Five Ways to Keep Your App Customers Engaged
- Dec 28, 2011
- Jeffrey Hughes tells you how you need to take other steps to keep your sales moving along and give your customers a reason to keep using and recommend your app to others.
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- How a Branded App Can Help Your Business
- Dec 28, 2011
- Jeffrey Hughes walks you through criteria to identify if there is a clear need for your app and if your app would be used over and over again.
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- Improving Mobile Web Application Development with HTML5
- Dec 28, 2011
- Learn to build a simple HTML5 document and find out why HTML5 is the language you should know if you want to design and develop mobile applications.
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