The Best Mac App Development Books of All Time

Explore the power of SwiftUI, creating complex user interfaces for different Apple platforms as you design a tax calculator app, a photo gallery app, an app store, and a fitness companion app in this part-color guide. Key Features:. - Learn how to use the latest SwiftUI features such as UIkit. - Develop UIs for all categories of Apple devices, from the Apple Watch to the iPad. - Enhance your applications further with advanced SwiftUI features. - Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook. Book Description:.

Elevate SwiftUI Skills by Building Projects helps you harness the cutting-edge potential of SwiftUI and its innovative and user-friendly approach to crafting user interfaces for Apple platforms with the power of Swift. This book will enhance your UI programming skills with SwiftUI through a project-based methodology, guiding you to create four real-world projects. Starting with a quick recap of Swift and SwiftUI, you'll gradually develop projects tailored for iPhone, iPad, macOS, and watchOS using Swift and Xcode. You'll experience SwiftUI's versatility in action as you build a tax calculator for iPhone and a photo gallery for the iPad, which uses a larger display to enhance the viewing experience. You'll also create an app store for Mac and, finally, get to grips with the power of SwiftUI for smaller devices such as the Apple Watch by designing a Fitness Companion app. By the end of this book, you'll have built fully functional projects across multiple platforms and gained the expertise needed to excel as a professional SwiftUI developer. What You Will Learn:. - Start with a quick recap of UI essentials in Swift and Swift basics. - Discover how UI elements are integrated into apps. - Understand how SwiftUI builds on top of the pre-existing Swift programming language. - Familiarize yourself with the latest Xcode version to create SwiftUI apps. - Develop a wide variety of applications that can be used as cornerstones. - Design and code for watchOS, iOS, macOS, and iPadOS in SwiftUI through explicit projects. Who this book is for:. If you are a mobile developer already well-versed in Apple development using Swift, this book will further advance your skills in UI design. Basic Swift, Xcode, and Apple OS knowledge will help you get the most out of this book. Table of Contents. - Swift and SwiftUI Recap. - iPhone Project - Tax Calculator Design. - iPhone Project - Tax Calculator Functionality. - iPad Project - Photo Gallery Overview. - iPad Project - Photo Gallery Enhanced View. - Mac Project - App Store Bars. - Mac Project - App Store Body. - Watch Project - Fitness Companion Design. - Watch Project - Fitness Companion UI.

The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies, and still enthusiastically recommended by experienced Mac OS X developers. “Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X is considered by most to be the de-facto intro-to-OS X programming text.”. —Bob Rudis, the Apple Blog. “I would highly recommend this title to anyone interested in Mac development. Even if you own the previous edition, I think you’ll find the new and revised content well worth the price.”. —Bob McCune, bobmccune.com.

If you’re developing applications for Mac OS X, Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition,is the book you’ve been waiting to get your hands on. If you’re new to the Mac environment, it’s probably the book you’ve been told to read first. Covering the bulk of what you need to know to develop full-featured applications for OS X, written in an engaging tutorial style, and thoroughly class-tested to assure clarity and accuracy, it is an invaluable resource for any Mac programmer. Specifically, Aaron Hillegass and Adam Preble introduce the two most commonly used Mac developer tools: Xcode and Instruments. They also cover the Objective-C language and the major design patterns of Cocoa. Aaron and Adam illustrate their explanations with exemplary code, written in the idioms of the Cocoa community, to show you how Mac programs should be written. After reading this book, you will know enough to understand and utilize Apple’s online documentation for your own unique needs. And you will know enough to write your own stylish code. Updated for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7, this fourth edition includes coverage of Xcode 4, blocks, view-based table views, Apple’s new approach to memory management (Automatic Reference Counting), and the Mac App Store. This edition adds a new chapter on concurrency and expands coverage of Core Animation. The book now devotes a full chapter to the basics of iOS development.

Covering the bulk of what you need to know to develop full-featured applications for OS X, this edition is updated for OS X Yosemite (10.10), Xcode 6, and Swift. Written in an engaging tutorial style and class-tested for clarity and accuracy, it is an invaluable resource for any Mac programmer. The authors introduce the two most commonly used Mac developer tools: Xcode and Instruments. They also cover the Swift language, basic application architecture, and the major design patterns of Cocoa. Examples are illustrated with exemplary code, written in the idioms of the Cocoa community, to show you how Mac programs should be written.

After reading this book, you will know enough to understand and utilize Apple’s online documentation for your own unique needs. And you will know enough to write your own stylish code. This edition was written for Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2. At WWDC 2015, Apple announced Xcode 7 and Swift 2, both of which introduce significant updates that (along with some changes to Cocoa for OS X 10.11) affect some of the exercises in this book. We have prepared a companion guide listing the changes needed to use Xcode 7 to work through the exercises in the book; it is available at https://github.com/bignerdranch/cocoa-programming-for-osx-5e/blob/master/Swift2.md.