Mac® Application Development For Dummies®

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Table of Contents
3. Title Page
4. Introduction
5. Part I: Getting Started on Macintosh Apps
   1. Chapter 1: Gathering What You Need to Develop Mac Apps
      1. Why Develop Macintosh Apps?
      2. Discovering Apps Like a User
      3. Tooling Up
      4. Using Your Programming Skills
      5. Understanding Macintosh Application Development Challenges
      6. Stepping into a Brave, New World of Mac Apps
   2. Chapter 2: Mac OS X Coding with Xcode
      1. Getting Familiar with Xcode
      2. Creating a Macintosh Application with Xcode
   3. Chapter 3: Giving Your App Something to Do
      1. Creating a Tip Calculator
      2. Setting Xcode to Your Preferred Preferences
   4. Chapter 4: Objective-C and Cocoa Applications
      1. Objective-C
      2. Using Cocoa Frameworks
      3. Understanding the Application Life Cycle
6. Part II: A View to an App
   1. Chapter 5: Using Interface Builder to Lay Out Your Views
      1. Going with the Flow
      2. Touring Interface Builder
   2. Chapter 6: Controlling Your Windows and Views
      1. Opening Windows
      2. Introducing MVC
      3. Using MVC in Your App
      4. Adding a Preferences Window
   3. Chapter 7: Drawing Advanced Views
      1. Reviewing Apple’s Component Collection
      2. Understanding Cocoa’s Views
      3. Creating a Custom View
      4. Drawing
      5. Animating Views
7. Part III: Focus on the User
   1. Chapter 8: Maintaining Your Users' Data
      1. Analyzing the Data
      2. Storing the Data
      3. Maintaining User Preferences
   2. Chapter 9: Working in the Background
      1. Understanding Basic Threads
      2. Using Threads to Schedule Events
   3. Chapter 10: Printing Your User's Data
      1. Printing with Cocoa
      2. Setting up a Page
      3. Printing a Page
      4. Printing Straight to PDF
      5. Printing with Multiple Pages
8. Part IV: Polishing and Supporting Your App
   1. Chapter 11: Debugging Your App
      1. Understanding Where Errors Happen
      2. Using Xcode’s Debugger
      3. Using the Macintosh Logger
      4. Keeping Track of Bugs
   2. Chapter 12: Putting On the Finishing Touches
      1. Working with Application and File Icons
      2. Creating Your Own About Panel
      3. Tightening Your App’s Memory
      4. Localizing Your App
9. Part V: The Part of Tens
   1. Chapter 13: Ten Useful Apple Sample Apps
      1. ToolbarSample
      2. CustomMenus
      3. ButtonMadness
      4. SimpleCocoaApp
      5. NSTableViewBinding
      6. IconCollection
      7. PictureSharing
      8. Squiggles
      9. DictionaryController
      10. ImageTransition
   2. Chapter 14: Ten Macintosh Development Tips
      1. Keep Track of Memory
      2. Read Apple’s Documentation
      3. Use Online Resources
      4. Always Remember the Parent Class
      5. Look Beyond the Current Problem
      6. Follow Interface Builder’s Guidelines
      7. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
      8. Use Keyboard Shortcuts
      9. Set Xcode to Your Preferences
      10. Stay Up to Date