... Numbers for spreadsheets, and Pages for
word processing and page formatting) on the iPad, which would be unthink-
able for today’s iPhone or iPod touch.
Figure 1-1:
The iPad
runs iOS
(left) and ... takes for an iPad app to be truly
great.
Figuring Out What Makes
a Great iPad Application
You use the same software development kit and much of the same code to
develop iPad, iPhone, and iPod ... Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the
Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies. com, Making Everything
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are the methods. In reality, this is no surprise. GameSalad only hides
the programming aspects of iOS development! The iOS development
language is Objective-C, and ...
unbeatable.
Specifying the Game Concept and Rules
When you begin a new game project, it’s a good practice to start by specifying
the game concept and writing the rules of the game down on paper. This ... you in setting up the required tools.
GameSalad Requirements
These are the minimum hardware and software requirements for developing iOS
games with GameSalad:
Intel-based Mac computer with...
... managing director for Nanaimo Studio, a game studio
based out of Seattle and Shanghai that specializes in web and mobile
games. He has extensive experience with gamedevelopmentand
interactive ... write
more stable code with fewer bugs and better performance.
What iPhone App Developers Will Learn
So you are an iPhone app developer and you’ve worked with the iPhone SDK before?
Perfect. ... Device
For development, any Intel-based Mac computer suffices. Even the Mac mini is perfectly
fine for developing iPhone applications and games. I do recommend you have 2 GB of
RAM (Random Access...
... 300,000 iPads on the first day. Compare
that to 270,000 original iPhones, and it’s apparent that the iPad was received very well.
1.2 All for one and one for all: the iPhone OS platform
The ... 35
3
Using Xcode 36
3.1 Introducing Xcode 36
The anatomy of Xcode 37
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Compiling and executing in
Xcode 38
3.2 Creating a first iPhone project in Xcode: Hello, World! 39
Understanding main.m ... from the authors and from other users. To
access the forum and subscribe to it, point your web browser to http://www.manning.
com/iPhoneandiPadinAction. The Author Online forum and the archives...
... fine
for most iPhone apps. iPad apps, on the other hand, are often expected to
work in both portrait and landscape modes. Because
UIViewController
provides
autorotation behavior for free and ... and landscape variants
of your default image, and UIKit chooses the right one for you. However,
your code has no way of knowing which image was used and therefore can’t
choose the right one for ... the tireless effort of hundreds of gifted and passionate
people in Cupertino over the better part of the past decade. I must thank
my many friends and former colleagues at Apple for creating this...
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a logic puzzle, you progress to a multiplayer blackjack game, master 2-D
sprites, and combine sprites with code to generate random mazes and
create a maze chase game.
This ... the game is currently in. Then the
code in p a i n t ( ) and the control code in r u n ( ) can check the current state
to decide what to paint to the screen and what task the game should perform.
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... the iPhoneandiPad Simulator application will be hiding in the folder
/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/Applications/. If you don’t want to go
mad looking for it before ... Douglas Pundick and Brian
MacDonald, for their valuable comments; Paul Haine for his close reading and testing of every
chapter and example in this book; and Kim Wimpsett, for helping us make ... will be
presenting useful resources for your developing adventure.
Using the iPhoneandiPad Simulator
There are many reasons why you wouldn’t want to use an iPhone device while
developing...
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Mobile Apps
There’s a Dummies App for This and That
With more than 200 million books in print and over 1,600 unique
titles, Dummies ... security
solutions for mobile platforms, most especially the BlackBerry smartphone.
In his spare time, he develops software for smartphones such as BlackBerry,
iPhone, and Android as part of ...
greatly through my learning to write ForDummies experience and also with
ideas and motivation for moving ahead. Project Editor Jean Nelson deserves
enormous thanks for putting up with a wet-behind-the-ears...
... to
www .dummies. com/cheatsheet/facebookapplicationdevelopment
Mobile Apps
There’s a Dummies App for This and That
With more than 200 million books in print and over 1,600 unique
titles, Dummies ... . . . . . .355
Facebook’s Developer Forum 355
Facebook Application DevelopmentForDummies —
the Facebook Group 358
Facebook Application DevelopmentForDummies —
the Facebook Page 360
Contacting ... to comment on
and like these posts, and their friends can see them and might also want
to comment and like those posts. You have just enabled something for
them to talk about, and they are now...
... expertise sharpened and shiny.
Thanks to Daniel Bailey at EMC for his efforts to ensure that I maintained a
distinct separation between my EMC efforts and my writing efforts.
And very special ...
Application DevelopmentForDummies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.). He lives
near Boston and works for RSA, the Security Division of EMC, where he
develops security solutions for mobile platforms ... possible
for a Mac application. A Mac application can hear you speak and analyze
your voice — Mac laptops and iMacs come with built-in microphones, and
a library of code to listen forand react...
... mobile SDKs fordevelopment on mobile phones. They have
provided an iPhone SDK, and more recently, an Android SDK for mobile appli-
cation developers to integrate into their iPhoneand Android applications.
Each ... official development SDKs (PHP, Python,
JavaScript, iPhone, and Android) on GitHub as open source (see Figure 1-9).
GitHub is an open source repository of code that anyone can sign up for
and post ... report your problems
and ask your questions here before going to the Facebook Developer Forum
(which I talk about in Chapter 2).
The iPhoneand Android SDKs
Facebook isn’t just for the Web! At the...
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The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies. com, Making Everything Easier, and
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Android Game Programming ForDummies
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AppBrain 324
AndroLib
325
Your Website
326
BitTorrent Sites
326
Chapter 16: Ten Websites for Android Game Developers 327
Stack Overow 328
Android ... Adopting the Android
Gaming Mindset
Part I provides you with a history of Android and mobile gaming to this point
in time. I contrast Android gamedevelopment with other platforms and dis-
cuss...