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Publication Date: November 9, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0470568437 | ISBN-13: 978-0470568439 | Edition: 2
Making Everything Easier!

With iPhone? Application Development for Dummies, Second Edition, you'll learn to:

  • Design small- or large-scale iPhone applications for profit or fun
  • Create new iPhone apps using Xcode?
  • Get your applications into the App Store
  • Work with frameworks

Got a good idea? Turn it into an app, have some fun, and pick up some cash!

Make the most of the new 3.1 OS and Apple's Xcode 3.2! Neal Goldstein shows you how, and even illustrates the process with one of his own apps that's currently being sold. Even if you're not a programming pro, you can turn your bright idea into an app you can market, and Neal even shows you how to get it into the App Store!

  • Mobile is different ? learn what makes a great app for mobile devices and how an iPhone app is structured
  • What you need ? download the free Software Development Kit, start using Xcode, and become an "official" iPhone developer
  • The nitty-gritty ? get the hang of frameworks and iPhone architecture
  • Get busy with apps ? discover how to make Xcode work for you to support app development
  • Off to the store ? get valuable advice on getting your apps into the App Store
  • Want to go further? ? explore what goes into industrial-strength apps

Open the book and find:

  • What it takes to become a registered Apple developer
  • How to debug your app
  • What's new in iPhone 3.1 and Xcode 3.2
  • What goes into a good interface for a small device
  • How applications work in the iPhone environment
  • Why you must think like a user
  • What the App Store expects of you
  • What makes a great iPhone app

Visit the companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/iphoneappdevfd2e for source code and additional information on iPhone app development.

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Making Everything Easier!

2nd Edition

iPhone® Application Development for Dummies

Learn to:

  • Design small- or large-scale iPhone applications for profit or fun

  • Create new iPhone apps using Xcode®

  • Get your applications into the App Store

  • Work with frameworks

Neal Goldstein

Author of Objective-C For Dummies

Got a good idea? Turn it into an app, have some fun, and pick up some cash!

Make the most of the new 3.1 OS and Apple's Xcode 3.2! Neal Goldstein shows you how, and even illustrates the process with one of his own apps that's currently being sold. Even if you're not a programming pro, you can turn your bright idea into an app you can market, and Neal even shows you how to get it into the App Store!

  • Mobile is different — learn what makes a great app for mobile devices and how an iPhone app is structured

  • What you need — download the free Software Development Kit, start using Xcode, and become an "official" iPhone developer

  • The nitty-gritty — get the hang of frameworks and iPhone architecture

  • Get busy with apps — discover how to make Xcode work for you to support app development

  • Off to the store — get valuable advice on getting your apps into the App Store

  • Want to go further? — explore what goes into industrial-strength apps

Open the book and find:

  • What it takes to become a registered Apple developer

  • How to debug your app

  • What's new in iPhone 3.1 and Xcode 3.2

  • What goes into a good interface for a small device

  • How applications work in the iPhone environment

  • Why you must think like a user

  • What the App Store expects of you

  • What makes a great iPhone app

Visit the book's companion Web site at www.dummies.com/go/iphoneappdevfd2e for source code and additional information on iPhone app development

About the Author

Neal Goldstein is a recognized expert at making cutting-edge technologies practical for commercial and enterprise development. He is currently leading an iPhone startup that is developing an application that will radically change how people can use iPhones to manage information, and he holds a patent on an enterprise-wide SOA-based architecture.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 2 edition (November 9, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470568437
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470568439
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #538,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Can we hurry up already.... December 13, 2009
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was hoping for more, discounting the other negative reviews and giving the author the benefit of the doubt. I wish I hadn't spent my money on this book...

Let me list some of the problems I have with the title:

1. the screen-shot illustrations are impossible to read, they are too light
2. the author tries to be funny, but it didn't work for me... I don't need someone to tell me to roll up my sleeves to begin coding
3. After five chapters, I had enough theory. Show me some code already. Jeez.
4. The author tries to illustrate several concepts with diagrams that did little more than frustrate me.
5. I learn by doing, but the author wants to teach you everything and then show you a basic example after 5 chapters of explanation. He gives you complicated theory and then a basic application. Why bother with the theory if the example application will illustrate little of what you explained.
6. The entire book illustrates exactly one and one half applications. The apple docs will get you through your first app in about 4 pages...for free!

I think the author knows his stuff. This is not a personal attack, but the book could have been structured much better to be a more informative learning tool.

My copy is going in the trash. I don't want to see on by bookshelf and remind me of my wasted time with this fiasco!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By YP
Format:Paperback
Just to give a quick review. I have a development background but no knowledge of iPhone SDK and Obj-C. This book was very helpful. It explained every step and had graphics to show details. You can also download the sample code. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about iPhone programming. My only criticism is that I don't think a "dummy" can really pick up this book and understand it. I think that a techie background helps. Happy Programming!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Gets your foot in the door. February 10, 2010
By Leo
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have no programing experience; however, this book makes it easy to understand how it works. It is very good at explaining little intricate details. I recommend it!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Old book
Many of the things found in this book dates back long before even the iPhone 3gS although it's a nice tutorial on how to do things i still found it to be pretty difficult to... Read more
Published 4 months ago by dphilipson
Terrible
Learning iOS and programming for iPhone is NOT FOR DUMMIES. There is no shortcut. I have bought this book and gave up after reading half of it. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Marcelo Perrone
A few problems
I bought this for kindle/kindle apps. You don't get the CD, but you can download all the files the author uses online. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Thenecron
WASTE OF MONEY
This book should have been a pamphlet, it overexplains things to the extent that you feel you are wasting your time, it gives you very little information, I am very disjointed with... Read more
Published 24 months ago by fullyrandomtandem
Not the correct style/content for a development book
The content of the book is basic and is OK as an introduction, however there are a few things I don't like about this book:

1) Some key steps are usually missing or not... Read more
Published on February 23, 2010 by Manuel A. Ricart
Difficult
This book is not easy to read. It goes into lots of incomprehensible theory first and then provided differing levels of tutorial. Read more
Published on January 15, 2010 by Robert Y. Elphick
Not good
I really didn't like this book. Besides being superficial (I know it's a Dummies book) it's repetitive.
Published on January 11, 2010 by Guilherme Ribeiro
good book for beginners
Bought this for a high school student who has been programming/writing iphone apps who found this book interesting enough to read at library - going back daily to keep reading it. Read more
Published on January 9, 2010 by minacel
Great book, only only one little irritating thing
This is THE book to purchase if you want to learn the iPhone app development from the ground. The book "Beginning iPhone 3 Development" by Jeff LaMarche and Dave Mark, is a more... Read more
Published on December 17, 2009 by E. Wedoe
Great for beginner iphone developers (maybe not beginner programmers)
I'm completely new to the iPhone (and mac) development, and this book has been great for me. I am a programmer already, but still new to small system development. Read more
Published on December 2, 2009 by James Peterson
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