Mac^® Application Development For Dummies^®

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Foolish Assumptions

How This Book Is Organized

Part I: Getting Started on Macintosh Apps

Part II: A View to an App

Part III: Focus on the User

Part IV: Polishing and Supporting Your App

Part V: The Part of Tens

Icons Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started on Macintosh Apps

Chapter 1: Gathering What You Need to Develop Mac Apps

Why Develop Macintosh Apps?

Discovering Apps Like a User

Understanding how users interact with their Mac

Seeing what your users see

Tooling Up

Buying a great development Mac

Downloading the software you need

Using Your Programming Skills

Objective-C programming for Mac apps

Debugging

Using software patterns

Understanding Macintosh Application Development Challenges

Targeting an OS X version

Programming defensively

Stepping into a Brave, New World of Mac Apps

Deciding what kind of app to create

Brainstorming, alone or in groups

Becoming a Mac developer and App Store seller

Chapter 2: Mac OS X Coding with Xcode

Getting Familiar with Xcode

Creating a Macintosh Application with Xcode

What type of app are you?

Creating a new project

Xcode’s visual details

Chapter 3: Giving Your App Something to Do

Creating a Tip Calculator

Analysis of the changes to SimpleCocoaWindowApp

Analysis of the calculateTip: method

Dude, where’s my app? ...