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Sams Teach Yourself

John Ray

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Sams Teach Yourself iOS 8 Application Development in 24 Hours

Copyright 2015 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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ISBN-13: 9780672337239
ISBN-10: 0672337231

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 2015900442

Printed in the United States of America

First Printing March 2015

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John Ray currently serves as the Director of the Office of Research Information Systems at The Ohio State University. He has written numerous books for Macmillan/Sams/Que, including Using TCP/IP: Special Edition, Teach Yourself Dreamweaver MX in 21 Days, Mac OS X Unleashed, My Yosemite MacBook, and Teach Yourself iOS 7 Development in 24 Hours. As a Macintosh user since 1984, he strives to ensure that each project presents the Macintosh with the equality and depth it deserves. Even technical titles such as Using TCP/IP contain extensive information about the Macintosh and its applications and have garnered numerous positive reviews for their straightforward approach and accessibility to beginner and intermediate users.

You can visit his website at http://teachyourselfios.com or follow him on Twitter at @johnemeryray or #iOSIn24.

This book is dedicated to taking a long nap. Shhhhhh...

Thank you to the group at Sams PublishingLaura Norman, Keith Cline, Mark Renfrowand my Tech Editor, Anne Groves, for helping me survive this tumultuous year of updates. From Yosemite, to Xcode 6.x, to SwiftApple cant seem to sit still for more than a few minutes. Getting these changes into a book, and getting them right, has been quite the challenge for the entire team. Thank you all!

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When you pick up an iOS device and use it, you feel connected. Whether it be an iPad, an iPhone, or an iPod, the interface acts as an extension to your fingers; it is smooth, comfortable, and invites exploration. Other competing devices offer similar features, and even sport gadgets such as styluses and trackpads, but they cannot match the user experience that is iOS.

iOS and its associated development tools have changed rapidly over the past few years. iOS 7 brought us a new user interface that used depth and translucency to keep users connected to their content and aware of the context in which they are accessing it. iOS 8 includes even more refinement, but, perhaps more importantly, supports a brand new language for developing apps Swift.