Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Nutting, Jack / Wooldridge, Dave / Mark, David, PUBLISHER: Apress, Best-selling authors Jack Nutting, Dave Wooldridge, and Dave Mark do it again. Beginning iPad Development for iPhone Developers: Mastering the iPad SDK offers the easy-to-follow style and thorough coverage you've come to expect from titles like Beginning iPhone 3 Development--everything an aspiring iPad developer needs to know to create great apps. Apple's new iPad SDKs are explained, demonstrated in action, and put through their paces with good-humored clarity that, as Steve Jobs has said of the iPad itself, "just works." Every iPhone and iPod touch app developer looking to take the next step and move into the iPad arena will want to read this book from cover to cover. You'll get a detailed understanding of the new feature set and gain every possible advantage in the iTunes App Store. And it's time for all you Mac OS X programmers to join in as well to take advantage of a whole new class of touch-based productivity apps just waiting to be developed. What you'll learn How to migrate iPhone apps to take advantage of new iPad features. How to design your apps to take full advantage of the iPad's bigger screen. How to create complex applications that just weren't practical with the iPhone OS. Who this books is for For all iPhone app developers who want to leverage their skills to develop apps for the iPad. This book is also for experienced Mac OS X developers who want to create iPad desktop-style apps that were never practical on the iPhone. Table of Contents An iPad way of life iPhone recap What's new in iPad New Graphics Functionality Core Text Popovers Video and Display Options New ways of presenting view controllers Advanced Input Methods Documents and Files Supporting both iPhone and iPad in one app iPad for Mac OS X developers Integrating iPad with other devices