Nilesh R. Mohite
Nilesh R. Mohite
About the Author
Mayank Birani has 3 years of experience in the software industry and a strong association with the technical industry. After several years of programming experience in different programming languages, he started developing applications for iOS devices. He started software development while he was pursuing his graduation and was really interested in learning new technologies. He then joined a software company and started developing iOS applications for them, focusing on real content-based iOS applications.
I would like to send a special thanks to my mom, Neelu Birani, and dad, Prakash Birani, for their relentless efforts in assisting me in every way imaginable as well as for helping me keep my life together. Finally, I would like to thank all my friends for sharing my happiness when I started working on this project and encouraging me when it seemed too difficult to be completed.
About the Reviewers
Nguyen Thai Duong is 29 years old. He lives in Hanoi with his wife and daughter. He likes computers and reads fairy tales, mystery science, and natural science. He started studying computer programming when he was 13 years old. He has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He worked for DeNA, Vietnam (earlier Punch Entertainment), a mobile game development and distribution company, for 5 years. Currently, he is working for a start up, Gigatum. The company's product is Clingmea location-based mobile application. You can download Clingme from the Apple Store or Play Store. Clingme is a kind of consumer social networking site such as Yelp or Dianping, but for Vietnam. Some of the company's other products include Vi-Chat (a Yahoo! instant-messenger client for MIDlet devices), Jacos2D-X (an open source game engine based on Cocos2d-x with V8 JavaScript integration), V8 JavaScript library for iOS (open source MIT), and the SpriteBuilder library for Cocos2d-x (open source MIT). With a large population (about 92 million people in 2013) and more than 20 million people using smartphones, Nguyen hopes his business will be successful in Vietnam.
This is his first book.
I would like to thank Paushali Desai and Venitha Cutinho who trusted in me and introduced me to this project.
Vivek Pandya is a software developer and is passionate about Apple Technologies. He is also interested in algorithms and operating systems. He supports open source software and works for the Drupal project. His interests outside computers include fitness, trekking, and biology.
Shuichi Tsutsumi is a freelancer and an iOS developer since 2009 and has developed more than 30 iOS apps. Some of the apps that he developed includes the following:
- Bound Monsters, which he developed as a lead programmer and recorded over 2 million downloads in Japan.
- TAP NINJA, for which he was responsible for all of the implementation. This app was awarded Best of App Store 2012.
- Domino's App, for which he was the lead programmer. This app received various awards, including Bronze Lion at Cannes Lions 2011, Direct Lotus (Bronze), at ADFEST 2011, and was a Bronze Winner at London International Awards 2010.
He worked as an image processing engineer at Canon Inc. (2007 to 2009) where he designed image processing functions and invented patents for printers.
He also worked at NTT DATA Corporation (2003 to 2007) where he was involved in the R&D on speech recognition interface.
He completed his MS in Communications and Computer Engineering from the Graduate School of Informations, Kyoto University (2001 to 2003) and his BS in Computer Science, Kyoto University (1997 to 2001).
He has also worked on a book on iOS ( iOS Expert Recipes 100 , Hidekazu system ) that can be found at http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4798038180.
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Preface
This book will help you get started and understand the development of an enterprise application for iOS. It serves as a step-by-step guide to help you to understand the core concepts of iOS application development. It provides a deeper understanding of the way to develop and deploy your apps. It has seamlessly organized content that will help you learn, in an incremental way, how to enhance your conceptual and programming skills.