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My Windows Phone 7

Book Description
Step-by-step instructions with callouts to Windows Phone 7 photos so that you can see exactly what to do
Help when you run into Windows Phone 7 problems or limitations
Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your Windows Phone 7 device
Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Windows Phone 7 working just the way you want. Learn how to:

Get started fast! Covers Windows Phone 7.5 Mango release.
Master Windows Phone 7’s elegant interface and powerful shortcuts
Quickly set up ringtones, voicemail, Airplane Mode, wallpaper, accessibility, and more
Connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi networks, …

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Programming in Objective-C, 4th Edition – PDF

Book Description
Programming in Objective-C is a concise, carefully written tutorial on the basics of Objective-C and object-oriented programming for Apple’siOS and Mac platforms.
The book makes no assumptions about prior experience with object-oriented programming languages or with the C language (which Objective-C is based upon). Because of this, both beginners and experienced programmers alike can use this book to quickly and effectively learn the fundamentals of Objective-C.
Readers can also learn the concepts of object-oriented programming without having to first learn all of the intricacies of the underlying C programming language. This unique approach to learning, combined with many small program examples and exercises …

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Sams Teach Yourself Windows Phone 7 Game Programming in 24 Hours

Book Description
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you’ll learn how to build highperformance games for Windows Phone 7 with Microsoft’s free XNA4.0 toolset. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master all the skills you need to design, develop, test, and publish highly playable games for any WP7 device. You’ll learn how to integrate game logic, touch screen user input, bitmaps, animations,audio, physics effects, GPS location services, and more. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, culminating in the construction of a complete game—and giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you …

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2 May 2012 | | , , , , ,
Pro iOS Table Views: for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Book Description
If you’re an iOS app developer, chances are you’ll be using table views in your development projects. Table views are the bread and butter ofiOS apps. With them, you can create everything from the simplest of lists to fully tricked-out user interfaces.
Table views are one of the most complex components found in UIKit. While using them for boring standard user interfaces is quite simple, customizing them can become really challenging.
Pro iOS Table Views takes a task-oriented focus to assist you when implementing customized table views. Although it delves deeply into the Table View API, you can always …

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Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development

Book Description
The Unreal UDK features Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine 3, used to create bestselling games such as Infinity Blade for iOS, and popular console games like Borderlands and Bioshock. Now, you can build your own Unreal game for the iOS platform.
Beginning iOS 3D Unreal Games Development covers using the Unreal UDK game creation system to create 3D games for the iOS platform, which includes the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Specifically, this book covers:

UnrealScript programming language, going beyond the limitations of the visual Kismet scripting language
The Unreal UDK code framework, basic UDK tools and other UDK items needed to build a game
Various author-created game frameworks are presented and are used to illustrate the UnrealScriptprogramming language and user input methods specific …

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Beginning Windows Phone App Development

Book Description
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 handsets have injected a new vibrancy into the smartphone marketplace and provided bold new opportunities for the Microsoft development community.
Take advantage of these opportunities with Beginning Windows Phone App Development, written specifically to help you learn the skills you’ll need to develop rich, functional apps for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Authors Henry Lee and Eugene Chuvyrov cover the very latest developments in the field—including the extended APIs offered in the new Mango platform update—so you’ll have timely, accurate information at your fingertips.
Beginning Windows Phone App Development starts with the basics, walking …

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Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development

Book Description
Today’s Facebook is emerging to become tomorrow’s operating system, according to some. Certainly, a WebOS. Web standards-based apps using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and more are now possible on Facebook. Why not get started with developing and sellingFacebook game apps on Facebook’s App Store?
Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development gets you started with building your first game apps that run on Facebook. Become your own “Zynga” and create your own “Civilization” or “Farmville” and more. Build rich Web-based apps that you can sell on Facebook’s App Store.
Because these apps are built on Web standards, you can build and run on many browsers and—more interestingly—more computers, tablets, smartphones and even other devices …

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Android Cookbook

Book Description
Jump in and build working Android apps with the help of more than 200 tested recipes. With this cookbook, you’ll find solutions for working with the user interfaces, multitouch gestures, location awareness, web services, and device features such as the phone, camera, and accelerometer. You also get useful steps on packaging your app for the Android Market.
Ideal for developers familiar with Java, Android basics, and the Java SE API, this book features recipes contributed by more than three dozen developers from the Android community. Each recipe provides a clear solution and sample code you can use in …

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iPhone Location Aware Apps by Example: Beginners Guide

Book Description
From weather apps which give you a forecast based on your current location to fitness apps which track your speed and distance travelled. From Google Maps to Foursquare. Increasing mobility and social networking has made location awareness an integral aspect of modern iPhone applications.
This book will teach you everything you need to know about building iPhone location aware apps, from simple Google maps to complex region monitoring and augmented reality. Build five real world location aware apps and get a taste of HTML5-based mobile app development.
The book begins by …

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18 Apr 2012 | | , ,
GameSalad: Beginner’s Guide

Book Description
GameSalad is as an easy to use Game development platform that can be used to develop games without having to write any code. That way, with GameSalad, you don’t have to worry about debugging and testing. Once you learn to use GameSalad, you will be able to build games within days.
GameSalad Beginner’s Guide will give you a detailed overview of the tool and teach you how to use it to build your best game along with the author’s very own tips and tricks to design an interesting game. This book will take you through the different steps of …