Mobile and handheld device programming Books

Book Synopsis 　 DESCRIPTION Anyone Can Create an App is based on the lofty premise that anyone can begin programming given the right tools and the right help. With some time set aside and the course-work in this book, readers will be able to program their first, fully working iPhone or iPad Application. They’ll wonder why they never did it before! Anyone Can Create an App provides the EASY starting point for those people who have never programmed before but who always wanted to build iPhone and iPad apps. It starts with the absolute basics and progresses without leaving gaps so that the non-technical person can feel confident going from green to full-grown. Readers will create several apps for their iPhone and get a huge sense of accomplishment along the way. The book also demystifies some of the "insider terms" that programmers use. KEY FEATURES  Short easy, easy to digest chapters  No programming experience necessary  Gain useful knowledge of iPhone and iPad programming AUDIENCE The Swift programming language is an ideal first language. Non-programmers can finally learn to code in iOS for iPhones and iPads without prior knowledge. ANYONE can create an App! ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Mobile development needs continue to skyrocket and many people want to get in the surge, but they don’t know how to program. Swift is an easy to use intuitive programming language for iOS, OS X, and watchOS and makes an ideal first language.

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Book SynopsisHelps you learn the tools essential for building high-quality applications for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod touch. This title offes an introduction to Apple's Cocoa programming environment. It also helps you learn building applications, managing events, creating GUIs, and more with Cocoa and the Application Kit.

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Book SynopsisTake a guided tour of macOS High Sierra and discover just how much your Mac can do Teach Yourself VISUALLY macOS High Sierra is the perfect introduction to Apple's operating system. With clear, step-by-step instructions and plenty of rich visuals, it walks you through the new macOS High Sierra and demonstrates the essential tasks you need to know. You'll learn how to manipulate Preferences to customize your experience, make the most of your digital media, and streamline your workflow while having a little fun. You'll tour Photos, Messages, and Notifications, and get acquainted with Mission Control, the App Store, and Siri. New Mac users will appreciate the straightforward instruction, while veteran users will enjoy getting up to speed on the latest features introduced or upgraded in macOS High Sierra. macOS High Sierra is the latest incarnation of Apple's macOS, boasting elegant new visuals, several new features, and more seamless integration of Mac and iOS devices. If you use a Mac, Table of ContentsChapter 1 Learning Basic macOS Tasks Start an Application 4 Start an Application Using Launchpad 6 Locate the Mouse Pointer 7 Switch Between Applications 8 View Running Applications with Mission Control 9 Run an Application Full Screen 10 Split the Screen with Two Applications 11 Search Your Mac 12 Voice‐Operate Your Mac with Siri 14 Save a Document 16 Open a Document 17 Print a Document 18 Copy a File 20 Move a File 21 Rename a File 22 Delete a File 23 Open a Folder in a Tab 24 Open a Document in a Tab 25 Chapter 2 Browsing the Web Open a Web Page in a Tab 28 Navigate Web Pages 30 Navigate with the History List 32 Change Your Home Page 34 Bookmark Web Pages 36 Pin a Web Page Tab 38 Set the Default Zoom Level for a Website 39 Mute a Web Page Tab 40 Control Automatic Media Playback for a Website 41 Display a Web Page Video as Picture‐in‐Picture 42 Search for Sites 43 Download a File 44 View a Page Without Distracting Features 46 Create a Web Page Reading List 48 Chapter 3 Communicating via Email Add an Email Account 52 Send an Email Message 54 Add a File Attachment 56 Add a Signature Block 58 Receive and Read Email Messages 60 Reply to a Message 62 Forward a Message 64 Open and Save an Attachment 66 Create a Mailbox for Saving Messages 68 Add Events and Contacts from a Message 70 Process Messages Using Gestures 71 Chapter 4 Enhancing Online Privacy Delete a Site from Your Browsing History 74 Ask Websites Not to Track You 76 Install and Use a Content Blocker 78 Remove Saved Website Data 80 Enable Private Browsing 82 Delete a Saved Website Password 84 Delete Saved Credit Card Data 86 Move Spam to the Junk Mailbox Automatically 88 Configure Advanced Junk Mail Filtering 90 Disable Remote Images 92 Chapter 5 Talking via Messages and FaceTime Sign In to Messages 96 Send a Message 98 Send a File in a Message 100 Sign In to FaceTime 102 Connect Through FaceTime 104 Chapter 6 Tracking Contacts and Events Add a New Contact 108 Edit a Contact 110 Create a Contact Group 112 Navigate the Calendar 114 Create an Event 116 Create a Repeating Event 118 Send or Respond to an Event Invitation 120 Chapter 7 Playing and Organizing Music Understanding the iTunes Library 124 Navigate the iTunes Window 125 Play a Song 126 Create a Playlist 128 Purchase Music from the iTunes Store 130 Apply Parental Controls 132 Subscribe to a Podcast 134 Chapter 8 Learning Useful macOS Tasks Integrate macOS and Your iPhone or iPad 138 Using Handoff to Switch Between a Device and macOS 140 Install a Program Using the App Store 142 Write a Note 144 Enhance Notes with Attachments 146 Create a Reminder 148 Create a New Reminder List 150 Work with the Notification Center 152 Organize Files with Tags 154 Search Files with Tags 156 Search for a Location 158 Get Directions to a Location 160 Install a Font 162 Access Non‐Keyboard Characters 164 Chapter 9 Connecting to Social Networks Sign In to Your Facebook Account 168 Post to Facebook 170 Publish a Photos Album to Facebook 172 Sign In to Your Twitter Account 174 Send a Tweet 176 Connect to Your LinkedIn Account 178 Post to LinkedIn 180 Update Your Social Network Profile Picture 182 Connect to Your Flickr Account 184 Send Photos to Flickr 186 Set Up Your Vimeo Account 188 Send a Video to Vimeo 190 Share Information with Other People 192 Chapter 10 Viewing and Editing Photos and Videos View a Preview of a Photo 196 View a Slideshow of Your Photos 198 Import Photos from a Digital Camera 200 View Your Photos 202 Create an Album 204 Crop a Photo 206 Rotate a Photo 208 Enhance a Photo with a Filter 209 Straighten a Photo 210 Remove Red Eye from a Photo 212 Add Names to Faces in Your Photos 214 Mark Your Favorite Photos 216 Set an Album’s Key Photo 217 Email a Photo 218 Take Your Picture 220 Play Digital Video with QuickTime Player 222 Chapter 11 Securing macOS Change Your Password 226 Require a Password on Waking 228 Disable Automatic Logins 230 Configure App Downloads 232 Turn On the Firewall 234 Configure Location Services 236 Enable the Guest User Account 238 Chapter 12 Customizing macOS Display System Preferences 242 Change the Desktop Background 244 Set Your Mac’s Sleep Options 246 Change the Display Resolution and Brightness 248 Create an App Folder in Launchpad 250 Add a User Account 252 Customize the Dock 254 Add an Icon to the Dock 256 Hide the Dock 258 Add a Widget to the Notification Center 260 Extend the Desktop Across Multiple Displays 262 Customize the Share Menu 264 Customize Siri 266 Customize the Mouse and Trackpad 268 Chapter 13 Maintaining macOS Empty the Trash 272 Organize Your Desktop 273 Check Hard Drive Free Space 274 Uninstall Unused Applications 276 Force a Stuck Application to Close 278 Configure Time Machine Backups 280 Restore an Earlier Version of a File 282 Restore Files Using Time Machine 284 Recondition Your Mac Notebook Battery 286 Restart Your Mac 288 Chapter 14 Working with iCloud Create an Apple ID 292 Set Up iCloud Synchronization 296 Generate a Website Password 298 Activate and Configure iCloud Drive 300 Manage Your iCloud Storage 302 Set Up Family Sharing 304 Locate and Lock a Lost Mac, iPod, iPhone, or iPad 306 Chapter 15 Networking with macOS Understanding Networking 310 Connect a Bluetooth Device 312 Connect to a Wireless Network 316 Connect to a Network Resource 318 Turn On File and Printer Sharing 320 Share a Folder 322 Share a Printer 324 Add a Shared Printer 326 View macOS on Your TV 328 Index 330

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Book SynopsisRob Percival is a web developer, author and entrepreneur who has taught over 500,000 students around the world to code through his online courses on Udemy. His courses have been translated into over five languages and have taught people to become confident web-developers. He is based in Cambridge, UK.Darren Woods is Managing Director of Synapture, a Web/Software Development Agency. Alongside his work, he teaches a Pre-Diploma Computer Science course and A-Level Computer Science. He is based in Cambridge, UK.Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction Section - ONE: Why coding Chapter - 01: Why coding is important and what it can do for you; Chapter - 02: What is coding?; Section - TWO: Languages; Chapter - 03: HTML; Chapter - 04: CSS Chapter - 05: JavaScript; Chapter - 06: Python; Section - THREE: In practice; Chapter - 07: Website development; Chapter - 08: Building an android app; Chapter - 09: Building an iPhone/iPad app; Chapter - 10: Debugging; Section - FOUR: Futureproofing your career with coding; Chapter - 11: Using coding to enhance your career prospects; Chapter - 12: Coding and entrepreneurship - creating your own business or product; Chapter - 13: Pursuing coding further - becoming a developer; Chapter - 14: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisUnleash the power of your Droid 2 with this authoritative and entertaining guide. Tech expert Preston Gralla gives you a guided tour of every feature, from setup to troubleshooting, with lots of tips and tricks along the way.

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Book SynopsisReady to put your ActionScript 3 skills to work on mobile apps? This hands-on book walks you through the process of creating an Adobe AIR application from start to finish, using the Flex 4.5 framework.

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Book SynopsisDeveloping Blackberry Tablet applications using Adobe Flex 4.5 for mobile will walk you through creating your 1st AIR on Blackberry application. Next, you will learn how to interact with the devices camera, gallery, accelerometer, GPS, multi touch display and native services using Adobe Flex 4.5.

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Book SynopsisJazz up your iPhone and iPad apps with some slick graphics and animation-and keep users from looking elsewhere. This short and concise cookbook shows developers with even little Cocoa programming experience how to create impressive graphics and animation effects with relatively easy coding.

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Book SynopsisBuild kickass websites and applications for all mobile (and non-mobile) platforms by adding HTML5 and CSS3 to your web development toolkit. With this hands-on book, you'll learn how to develop web apps that not only work on iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Phone, but also perform well and provide good user experience.

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Book SynopsisWritten by experts who have taught this mobile platform to hundreds of developers in large organizations and startups alike, this gentle introduction shows experienced object-oriented programmers how to use Android's basic building blocks to create user interfaces, store data, connect to the network, and more.

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Book SynopsisIf you're a .NET developer looking to build tablet apps, this practical book takes you step-by-step through the process of developing apps for the Windows Store. You'll learn how to use Microsoft's Modern UI design language with Windows 8.1 and WinRT 8.1.1 by building a line-of-business mobile app with C# through the course of the book.

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Book SynopsisThis concise guide demonstrates how to build apps with ADT for a device family that features several screen sizes, different hardware capabilities, and a varying number of resources.

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Book SynopsisGet a rapid introduction to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch programming. With this easy-to-follow guide, you'll learn how to develop your first marketable iOS application, from opening Xcode to submitting your product to the App Store

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Book SynopsisWhy simply play music or go online when you can use your iPhone or iPad for some really fun projects, such as building a metal detector, hacking a radio control truck, or tracking a model rocket in flight? Learn how to build these and other cool things by using iOS device sensors and inexpensive hardware.

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Book SynopsisWant to develop apps for the iPhone and iPad, but prefer to use a friendly language like Ruby? This in-depth guide shows you how MacRuby puts the power of Apple's development tools right at your fingertips.

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Book SynopsisIf you want to use your ActionScript skills to build mobile applications for the Android OS, this thorough guide will show you how to use the unique programming environment, architecture, and tools in the Adobe AIR for Android SDK.

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Book SynopsisThis introductory tutorial shows you how to use the jQuery Mobile library to build websites and apps for touch devices such as iPhone, iPad, Android, and BlackBerry. Learn the best way to apply this library's many interface components through a series of hands-on exercises.

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Book SynopsisBuild and deploy an attractive, user-friendly web or mobile application in one day or less using Oracle''s new, low-code development tool: Visual Builder Cloud Service.Today''s IT world is fast-paced, and the ability to rapidly deliver running code is the most crucial and sought-after skill a developer can have. Oracle has brought together their enterprise experience, advanced usability knowledge, and their best cloud engineering to produce an innovative platform giving developers unprecedented productivity.You will learn how to use all aspects of Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service to build web or mobile applications. Using the fully browser-based development environment, you''ll gain experience with all the modern user-interface components that the tool offers for a visual, user-interface-driven, development approach. You''ll also see how to use the integrated data management capabilities and existing REST data services to storTable of Contents1. Building Your First Web Application2. Building Business Objects3. Working with Service Connections4. Building Web Applications5. Working with Data6. Logic in the Business Layer7. Logic in the User Interface8. Using the Visual Builder Add-in for Excel9. Building Mobile Applications10. VBCS Security11. Managing Applications12. Enterprise Development with VBCS13. Integrating with Process Cloud Service

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Book SynopsisIf you're an experienced programmer who's never touched Apple developer tools, this hands-on book shows you how to use the Swift language to make incredible iOS and OS X apps, using Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

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Book SynopsisUnique and clever ideas are important when building a hot-selling Android app, but the real drivers for success are speed, efficiency, and power management. With this practical guide, you'll learn the major performance issues confronting Android app developers, and the tools you need to diagnose problems early. .

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