iPad Application Development For Dummies, 2nd Edition

556 Pages·2011·17.301 MB·English

by  Neal Goldstein, Tony Bove

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Neal Goldstein is a master at making cutting-edge technology practical. ISBN 978-0-470-92050-3
Neal Goldstein
He was an early pioneer of object-oriented programming and enjoys
rock-star status among mobile developers. Tony Bove has written more
Tony Bove
than two dozen books, including all editions of iPod touch For Dummies
Authors of iPhone Application Development
and iPod & iTunes For Dummies. Goldstein
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Application Development
FOR
DUMmIES
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2
ND EDITION
by Neal Goldstein and Tony Bove
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About the Authors
Neal Goldstein is a recognized leader in making state-of-the-art and cutting-edge
technologies practical for commercial and enterprise development. He was one
of the fi rst technologists to work with commercial developers at fi rms such as
Apple Computer, Lucasfi lm, and Microsoft to develop commercial applications
using object-based programming technologies. He was a pioneer in moving that
approach into the corporate world for developers at Liberty Mutual Insurance,
USWest (now Verizon), National Car Rental, EDS, and Continental Airlines,
showing them how object-oriented programming could solve enterprise-
wide problems. His book (with Jeff Alger) on object-oriented development,
Developing Object-Oriented Software for the Macintosh (Addison Wesley, 1992),
introduced the idea of scenarios and patterns to developers. He was an early
advocate of the Microsoft .NET framework, and he successfully introduced it
into many enterprises, including Charles Schwab. He was one of the earliest
developers of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and as Senior Vice President
of Advanced Technology and the Chief Architect at Charles Schwab, he built
an integrated SOA solution that spanned the enterprise, from desktop PCs to
servers to complex network mainframes. (He holds three patents as a result.)
As one of IBM’s largest customers, he introduced the folks at IBM to SOA at the
enterprise level and encouraged them to head in that direction.
He is passionate about the real value mobile devices can provide and has eight
applications in the App Store. These include a series of Travel Photo Guides
(http://travelphotoguides.com) developed with his partners at mobile-
fortytwo and a Digital Field Guides series developed in partnership with John
Wiley & Sons (http://lp.wileypub.com/DestinationDFGiPhoneApp).
Along with those apps, he has written several books on iPhone programming,
including all three editions of iPhone Application Development For Dummies
(Wiley) and Objective-C For Dummies (Wiley).
Because you can never tell what he’ll be up to next, check regularly at his
Web site, www.nealgoldstein.com.
Tony Bove is crazy about the iPad, iPod, and iPhone, and he not only provides
free tips on his Web site (www.tonybove.com), but also developed an iPhone
application (Tony’s Tips for iPhone Users) and is working on several iPad apps.
Tony has written more than two dozen books on computing, desktop pub-
lishing, and multimedia, including his own iPod & iTunes For Dummies, iPod
touch For Dummies, and iLife For Dummies, as well as iPhone Application
Development All-in-One For Dummies with Neal; he also wrote Just Say No to
Microsoft (No Starch Press) in 2005; The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam)
in 1986; and a series of books about Macromedia Director, Adobe Illustrator,
and PageMaker from 1986–1997. Tony produced a CD-ROM interactive docu-
mentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties, and developed the Rockument
music site, www.rockument.com, with commentary and podcasts focused on
rock music history. Tony has also worked as a director of marketing for lead-
ing-edge software companies and as a marketing messaging consultant.
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Dedication
Neal Goldstein: To my children, Sarah and Evan, and all of my personal and
artist friends who have kept me centered on the (real) world outside of writ-
ing and technology. But most of all to my wife Linda who is everything that
I ever hoped for and more than I deserve. Yes Sam . . . the light at the end of
the tunnel is not a freight train.
Tony Bove: Tony dedicates this book to his mother, his brothers, and his
sons, nieces, nephews, their cousins, and all their children . . . the iPad
generation.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
Neal Goldstein: Thanks to my business partners Jeff Enderwick and Jeff Elias
in mobilefortytwo and for their support and picking up the slack while I was
engaged in fi nishing this book. Maggie Canon for putting Tony and I together.
Carole Jelen, for her continued work and support in putting this project
together.
Acquisitions Editor Kyle Looper for keeping us on track and doing what-
ever he needed to do to allow us to stay focused on the writing. The Project
Editor’s Project Editor Paul Levesque who has been known to do even more
than six impossible things before breakfast. Copy Editor Virginia Sanders did
another great job in helping us make things clearer. Technical reviewer Jesse
Fuller added a great second pair of eyes.
Tony Bove: Tony owes thanks and a happy hour or two to Carole Jelen at
Waterside for agenting, to Maggie Canon for putting the authors together,
and to Kathy Pennington for support.
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