Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Interfaces

Core Animation for Mac OS X and the iPhone: Creating Compelling Dynamic User Interfaces

by Bill Dudney (Author)

Synopsis

Mac OS X Leopard introduces a fantastic new technology that makes writing applications with animated and cinematic user interfaces much easier. We'll explore this new technology by starting with the familiar concepts you already know from the pre-Leopard development kits. Then we'll see how they apply to the new frameworks and APIs. We'll build on your existing knowledge of Cocoa and bring you efficiently up to speed on what "Core Animation" is all about. With this book in hand, you can add "Core Animation" to your Cocoa applications, and make stunning user interfaces that your user's will be showing off to their friends.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 188
Edition: 1
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Published: 07 Nov 2008

ISBN 10: 1934356107
ISBN 13: 9781934356104

Author Bio
Bill Dudney is a software developer and entrepreneur currently building software for the Mac. Bill started his computing career on a NeXT cube with a magneto-optical drive running NeXTStep 0.9. Over the years, Bill migrated into the Java world, where he worked for years on building cool enterprise software. But he never forgot his roots and how much fun it was to write software that did cool things for normal people. Bill is back to AppKit to stay. You can follow him on his blog at http://bill.dudney.net/roller/objc.