- Looking Forward to Objective-C Literals
- Jun 11, 2012
- In this article you'll discover what enhanced literals are, how you use them, and why they'll help your day-to-day development. Bestselling author Erica Sadun introduces all the basics you need to get started.
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- Mastering iOS Frameworks: Working with and Parsing JSON
- Apr 28, 2015
- This chapter from Mastering iOS Frameworks: Beyond the Basics, 2nd Edition demonstrates how to parse and present JSON from a sample message-board server in an app, and encode a new message entry in JSON to send to the server.
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- Mastering the Android Development Tools
- Sep 15, 2011
- This chapter walks through a number of the most important tools available for use with Android that will help you develop Android applications faster and with fewer roadblocks.
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- Mastering XPages: Beyond the View Basics
- Feb 17, 2011
- This chapter focuses on the fine art of presenting view data in XPages.
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- Memory Management in the Cocoa Touch Framework
- Sep 24, 2011
- This chapter introduces memory management basics for iOS programming.
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- Mobile: The New Generation of Information Technology
- Jan 12, 2016
- In this chapter from Enterprise Class Mobile Application Development: A Complete Lifecycle Approach for Producing Mobile Apps, you'll learn the reasons that businesses want to develop mobile apps, and the impact that mobile apps have on how businesses operate. Also covered are the challenges posed in the development of mobile apps, as an underlying motivation for the rest of the book.
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- My Motorola Xoom: The Android Market
- Aug 10, 2011
- In this chapter, you learn how to use the Android Market, an online marketplace for downloading free apps. You learn how to purchase fee-based apps and how to uninstall apps and perform updates.
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- MyInformIT: It's All About Me, Me, Me
- Jul 19, 2001
- Though he's opposed to selfishness in general, the Kaptain works hard to let InformIT users customize their InformIT experience.
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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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- Objective-C Boot Camp
- Nov 25, 2011
- This chapter covers basic Objective-C skills that help you get started with iOS programming: interfaces, methods, properties, memory management, and more.
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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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- Objective-C Phrasebook: Numbers
- Feb 25, 2011
- David Chisnall describes the primitive (non-object) C types available in Objective-C and their treatment.
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- Optimizing Code for Power Consumption
- Nov 18, 2010
- Developers spend a lot of time optimizing code for various kinds of performance. David Chisnall takes a look at an increasingly important kind: power usage.
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- Optimizing Device-Specific iOS Development
- Apr 10, 2013
- Erica Sadun covers the hardware, file system, and sensors available on an iPhone device and helps you programmatically take advantage of those features, from its build configuration to its active onboard sensors. Erica then provides recipes that return a variety of information items about the unit in use.
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- Overcoming Android's Problems with JDK 7, Part 1
- Oct 29, 2012
- Java expert Jeff Friesen launches a two-part series that presents solutions to the problems of using JDK 7 to develop Android apps. Part 1 focuses on JAR library creation and release mode APK signing problems.
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- Overcoming Android's Problems with JDK 7, Part 2
- Nov 5, 2012
- Java expert Jeff Friesen completes a two-part series about the problems of developing Android apps with JDK 7. Part 2 focuses on supporting Java 7-specific language features.
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- Passing Data with Form and URL Variables
- Nov 20, 2001
- With dynamic applications, you can pass data between templates. Eben Hewitt details two common ColdFusion scopes that you can use to such advantage: FORM, which holds values passed from HTML forms, and URL, which holds parameters passed in the URL.
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- Pay Per Install: Does it Really Work?
- Jun 23, 2011
- Incentivized apps are all the rage, but Apple has temporarily put a stop on this type of marketing. Jeffrey Hughes explains how Tapjoy and Flurry are reviewing their business models to work within the App Store guidelines.
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- Preface to Essential Mobile Interaction Design: Perfecting Interface Design in Mobile Apps
- May 12, 2014
- Cameron Banga and Josh Weinhold introduce their book, Essential Mobile Interaction Design: Perfecting Interface Design in Mobile Apps, which aims to help put you in a place to succeed as a designer in today’s app market by teaching proven principles and techniques that you can use in your next app, no matter what mobile platform, targeted device, form factor, or user base you’re targeting.
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- Preface to iOS 8 Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself
- Mar 24, 2015
- In this preface to iOS 8 Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself, 6th Edition, John Ray explains what you will learn in his book, covers who can become in iOS developer, and discusses who the book is for.
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