Books by Vandad Nahavandipoor

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Writing Game Center Apps in iOS

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 1 MB New!

Now that Apple has introduced the GameKit framework to its iOS SDK, you can integrate Game Center features directly into your iPhone and iPad apps. This concise cookbook shows you how it’s done, with 18 targeted recipes for adding leaderboards, user authentication, achievements, multiplayer games, and many other features.

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Graphics and Animation on iOS

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 4 MB New!

Jazz up your iPhone and iPad apps with some slick graphics and animation – and keep users from looking elsewhere. This short and concise book shows developers with even little Cocoa programming experience how to create impressive graphics and animation effects with relatively easy coding. Learn how to incorporate smooth animations and draw images in your apps to achieve the classy look you want.

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iOS 4 Programming Cookbook

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 7.6 MB New!

You can build a variety of amazing apps on the iOS platform – and every one of them presents a unique set of problems. With the recipes in this cookbook, you’ll go beyond theory to solve the vexing, real-life issues you’re likely to face when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Each recipe provides a clear solution and sample code that you can use right away.

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Concurrent Programming in Mac OS X and iOS

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 800 KB New!

Now that multicore processors are coming to mobile devices, wouldn’t it be great to take advantage of all those cores without having to manage threads? This concise book shows you how to use Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) to simplify programming on multicore iOS devices and Mac OS X.

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iOS 5 Programming Cookbook

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 21.9 MB New!

Now you can overcome the vexing, real-life issues you confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. By making use of more than 100 new recipes in this updated cookbook, you’ll quickly learn the steps necessary for writing complete iOS apps, whether they’re as simple as a music player or feature a complex mix of animations, graphics, multimedia, a database, and iCloud storage.

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iOS 6 Programming Cookbook

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 29.1 MB New!

Overcome the vexing issues you’ll inevitably confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. By making use of new and revised recipes in this updated cookbook, you’ll quickly learn the steps necessary to write complete iOS apps – including ways to store and protect data, enhance and animate graphics, manage files and folders, and take advantage of Passbook.

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iOS 7 Programming Cookbook

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 35.6 MB New!

Overcome the vexing issues you’re likely to face when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. With new and thoroughly revised recipes in this updated cookbook, you’ll quickly learn the steps necessary to work with the iOS 7 SDK, including solutions for bringing real-world physics and movement to your apps with UIKit Dynamics APIs.

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iOS 9 Swift Programming Cookbook

by Vandad Nahavandipoor
333 pages - - 10.39 MB New!

Ready to build stunning apps for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch? This cookbook—completely rewritten with all-new material—provides 90 proven solutions for tackling the latest features in iOS 9 and watchOS 2.0. Written exclusively in Apple’s Swift language, these code-rich recipes show you how to use dynamic user interfaces, interactive maps, multitasking functionality, Apple’s new UI Testing framework, and many other features.