iSviluppo: il corso per sviluppare applicazioni in ambiente iPhone (Italian Edition)

FABIENSEN festeggia il primo anno su App Store con l'uscita di un libro-corso che passo passo vi insegnerà a sviluppare applicazioni per iPhone ed iPod Touch, tutto in ITALIANO e senza bisogno di connessione internet attiva!

Il testo è di facile lettura e adotta un metodo progressivo, che pian piano espone i temi principali dello sviluppo per iPhone: ciò che abbiamo voluto evitare è sia un atteggiamento semplicistico (SVILUPPA IN 5 MINUTI!) che uno troppo professionale (SVILUPPA IN 5 MESI)!

Ogni capitolo si basa su diverse applicazioni esempio, pronte da scaricare sul sito degli autori (www.fabiensen.com).

Il target dei lettori è stato volutamente individuato nella moltitudine di individui potenziali programmatori, che hanno una dimestichezza, anche minima, con il MAC, ma che non sono professionisti del settore. L'obiettivo è quello di portare alla realizzazione di applicazioni chiunque abbia un'idea ed un contenuto da riversare su App Store.

Ed è per questo che i temi affrontati, pur non essendo presentati in modo banale, vanno ad illustrare i casi più probabili di sviluppo in modo semplice e basandosi su progetti di facile comprensione.

Infine un'appendice affronta il tema delle tecniche di commercializzazione di un'applicazione iPhone.

Ecco i temi trattati nel testo, tutti accompagnati da codice esempio da scaricare sul sito degli autori:

- Come si sviluppa per iPhone
- Estendere la prima applicazione
- La struttura a tab Bar
- La struttura a tabelle
- Altri due metodi per creare spazio
- Un intermezzo necessario
- Testo e pagine web
- Immagini, scroll e mappe
- Preferenze dell'applicazione
- Leggere i file XML da locale e remoto
- GPS ed audio
- Gesti, orientamento e accelerometro
- Tabelle avanzate
- Oltre lo sviluppo


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iPhone Tricks and Apps

If you are like most aspiring entrepreneurs you probably think about your business and the next thing you need to do in order to make your work a success, even when you are away from your computer.

While doing what needs to be done is what can take you from nobody to somebody, most cell phones do not have the ability to provide you with the software you need when you are on the go.

Here are some of the most popular productivity applications that exist for the iPhone so you can stay on track with everything that needs to be done for your business, regardless of where your day may take you.

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iPhone<sup>®</sup> For Dummies<sup>®</sup>

The full-color guide to getting the most out of your iPhone

Completely updated and revised throughout, this full-color guide covers Apple's new iPhone and iOS 4. Bestselling veteran authors Baig and LeVitus introduce you to the capabilities of the iPhone whether you're making phone calls, browsing the Internet, sending and receiving e-mails, working with the calendar, watching videos, taking great photos, or much more. You'll discover how to set up iTunes, buy music and videos from the iTunes store, protect your information, troubleshoot, multitask, and download the hundreds of thousands of apps available from the App Store.

• Gets you started with your iPhone, and puts you on your way to mastering the multitouch interface, synchronizing your data, making phone and video calls, texting, working with the calendar, and more
• Explains setting up iTunes, watching videos, taking photos, and buying music
• Walks you through connecting to the Internet, sending and receiving e-mails, getting directions from GPS maps, protecting your information, and troubleshooting
• Addresses browsing and downloading any of the hundreds of thousands of applications from the App Store
• Includes coverage of iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and the new iPhone 4

Presented in the straightforward-but-fun style that defines the Dummies series, iPhone For Dummies, 4^th Edition is the only book you'll need to get comfortably acquainted with your new iPhone.

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iPod: The Missing Manual

Get the scoop on iTunes 9 and all of the newest iPods with this bestselling Missing Manual. Apple's gotten the world hooked on portable music, pictures, and videos with its amazing entertainment center, but one thing they haven't delivered is an easy guide for getting the most from it. iPod: The Missing Manual gives you a no-nonsense view of the latest iPod line, with expert guidance on the most useful things your iPod can do.

Get a Birds-Eye Look at Your Collection With Grid View

Although it’s been around since iTunes 8, Grid View is still probably the most eye-catching way to see your media library. It’s like laying out all your albums on the living room floor—great for seeing everything you’ve got, without the hassle of having to pick it all back up. More picturesque than List View and not quite as moving as Cover Flow, Grid View is the middle road to discovering (or rediscovering) what’s in your iTunes library.
iTunes offers four ways to see your collection: grouped by album, artist, genre, or composer. Click each named tab to see the music sorted by that category. (If you don’t see the tabs, choose View-->Grid View-->Show Header.) Here’s how to work the Grid:

1) Hover your mouse over any tile on the grid to get a clickable Play icon that lets you start listening to the music.
2) Double-click a cover in Albums view to display both the cover and song titles in List View.
3) If you have multiple albums under the Artists, Genres, or Composers tabs, hover your mouse over each tile to rotate through the album covers. If you want to represent the group using a particular album cover or piece of art, right-click it and choose Set Default Grid Artwork. You can do the opposite for art you don’t want to see: right-click it and choose Clear Default Grid Artwork.
4) Adjust the size of the covers and art by dragging the slider at the top of the window.
One thing about Grid View, though: It’s pretty darn depressing unless you have artwork on just about everything in your collection. (If you don’t, and you see far too many generic musical-note icons there, Chapter 5 shows you how to art things up.) And if you hate Grid View, don’t use it—iTunes just defaults to whatever view you were using the last time you quit the program.

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Fresh, New, Updated Combo Edition Of Windwalker's Kindle 1, 2, and Kindle for iPhone Guides (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly)

Fresh, New, Updated Combo Edition Of Windwalker's Kindle 1, 2, and Kindle for iPhone Guides (DRM-Free with Text-to-Speech Enabled, User-Friendly)

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iPhone: The Missing Manual

Written by New York Times columnist and Missing Manual series creator David Pogue, this first-to-market update shows readers and tire kickers everything they need to know to get the most out of their new Apple iPhone. As beautiful as the product it covers, this full-color book helps readers accomplish everything from Web browsing to watching videos.

Author David Pogue?s iPhone 2E Tips
The beauty of the new iPhone 3G is that you don?t need one. Almost all of the juicy stuff actually comes with the iPhone 2.0 software and the online App Store, both of which run perfectly well on the old iPhone as well. That, incidentally, is also the beauty of iPhone: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition. It covers both the old and the new iPhones, because it covers the 2.0 software, the iPhone App Store, and so on. Here are a few of my favorite tips from the book:

1) At the top of the screen, little icons indicate how you?re connected to the Internet: an E for the vast but dog-slow AT&T Edge network, a 3G icon if you?re on the faster but limited-area AT&T third-generation network, and radiating signal bars if you?re on Wi-Fi. The tip here: The two cellular icons (E and 3G) disappear whenever you?re on Wi-Fi. That?s not a mistake. The iPhone assumes that Wi-Fi is faster and better than any cellular network, and if you?re on it, you don?t care about E or 3G (and it?s right).

2) Unfortunately, 3G is a battery hog. If you don?t see a 3G icon on your iPhone 3G?s status bar, then you?re not in a 3G hot spot, and you?re not getting any benefit from the phone?s 3G radio. By turning it off, you?ll double the length of your iPhone 3G?s battery power, from 5 hours of talk time to 10. To do so, from the Home screen, tap Settings->General->Network-> Enable 3G Off. Yes, this is sort of a hassle, but if you?re anticipating a long day and you can?t risk the battery dying halfway through, it might be worth doing. After all, most 3G phones don?t even let you turn off their 3G circuitry.

3) More ways to save power: turn off more features. In Settings, you can turn off Bluetooth; Wi-Fi; GPS; "push" data; and the cellphone radio. Each saves you another bit of power.

4) When typing on the on-screen keyboard, you can save time by deliberately leaving out the apostrophe in contractions like I?m, don?t, can?t, and so on. Type im, dont, cant, and so on. The iPhone proposes I?m, don?t, or can?t, so you can just tap the Space bar to fix the word and continue.

5) To produce an accented character (like é, ë, è, ê, and so on), keep your finger pressed on that key for 1 second. A palette of accented alternatives appears; slide onto the one you want. (Keys that sprout these alternative versions: E, Y, U, I, O, S, L, Z, C, N, ?, ', ", $, and !.)

6) Even if you?ve engaged the silencer switch on the side, the iPhone still sounds any alarm you?ve set. Good to know.

7) You probably already know that you can rearrange your Home screen, and even set up multiple Home screens (up to 9). Just hold your finger down on any one icon until they all begin to wiggle. Now you can drag them to rearrange them (even onto the Dock of four special icons at the bottom), or drag off to the right to create a new Home screen. And what if, in the process of downloading and then deleting new App store programs, you wind up with unsightly gaps on your Home screens? Here?s a quick way to consolidate them onto a smaller number of full Home screens, without gaps: tap Settings->General-> Reset->Reset Home Screen Layout. If you?d put 10 programs on each of four Home screens, you wind up with only two screens, each packed with 20 icons. Any leftover blank pages are eliminated.

8) If you come to the iPhone from another, lesser GSM phone, your phone book may be stored on its little SIM card instead of in the phone itself . In that case, you don?t have to retype all of those names and numbers to bring them into your iPhone. In Settings->Contacts, the new Import SIM Contacts button can do the job for you. (The results may not be pretty. For example, some phones store all address-book data in CAPITAL LETTERS.)

9) If you?ve indulged yourself by downloading some goodies from the App Store, then you may find yourself wondering where you?re supposed to adjust their preferences. Turns out they often get stashed away in a completely different program?in Settings. That?s where Apple encourages software authors to locate their own setting screens. For example, here?s where you can edit your screen name and password for the AIM chat program, change how many days? worth of news you want the NY Times Reader to display, and so on.

10) Don?t type http://www or .com when entering Web addresses. Safari is smart enough to know that most Web addresses use that format?so you can leave all that stuff out, and it will supply them automatically. Instead of http://www.cnn.com, for example, just type cnn and hit Go.

11) Don?t type .net, .org, or .edu, either. Safari?s secret pop-up menu of canned URL choices can save you four keyboard-taps apiece. To see it, hold your finger down on the .com button. Then tap the common suffix you want.

12) The iPhone can now geotag the photos you take with it. Geotagging means, "embedding your latitude and longitude information into a photo when you take it." After all, every digital picture you?ve ever taken comes with its time and date invisibly embedded in its file; why not its location? So the good news is that the iPhone can geotag every photo you take. How you get to see this information, is a bit trickier. Once the photos are synced to your computer, you can view the geotag information in iPhoto (the Get Info command reveals latitude and longitude), Preview (the Inspector window shows a map), Picasa (use the Tools->Geotag menu to see the photo?s location in Google Earth). Unfortunately, the iPhone strips away the geotags whenever you send a photo by e-mail. That?s a good argument for using the free downloadable program AirMe instead of the iPhone?s built-in camera program. It avoids that geotag-stripping problem and many others.

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Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

What people are saying about Building iPhone Apps w/ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript"The future of mobile development is clearly web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Jonathan Stark shows you how to leverage your existing web development skills to build native iPhone applications using these technologies."--John Allsopp, author and founder of Web Directions"Jonathan's book is the most comprehensive documentation available for developing web applications for mobile Safari. Not just great tech coverage, this book is an easy read of purely fascinating mobile tidbits in a fun colloquial style. Must have for all PhoneGap developers."-- Brian LeRoux, Nitobi SoftwareIt's a fact: if you know HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you already have the tools you need to develop your own iPhone apps. With this book, you'll learn how to use these open source web technologies to design and build apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch on the platform of your choice-without using Objective-C or Cocoa.Device-agnostic mobile apps are the wave of the future, and this book shows you how to create one product for several platforms. You'll find guidelines for converting your product into a native iPhone app using the free PhoneGap framework. And you'll learn why releasing your product as a web app first helps you find, fix, and test bugs much faster than if you went straight to the App Store with a product built with Apple's tools.Build iPhone apps with tools you already know how to useLearn how to make an existing website look and behave like an iPhone appAdd native-looking animations to your web app using jQTouchTake advantage of client-side data storage with apps that run even when the iPhone is offlineHook into advanced iPhone features -- including the accelerometer, geolocation, and vibration -- with JavaScriptSubmit your applications to the App Store with XcodeThis book received valuable community input through O'Reilly's Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS). Learn more at http://labs.oreilly.com/ofps.html.

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