Developing C# Apps for iPhone and iPad using MonoTouch: iOS Apps Development for .NET Developers / Edition 1

by Bryan Costanich

Overview

Developing C# Applications for iPhone and iPad using MonoTouch shows you how to use your existing C# skills to write apps for the iPhone and iPad. Fortunately, there's MonoTouch, Novell's .NET library that allows C# developers to write C# code that executes in iOS. Furthermore, MonoTouch allows you to address all the unique functions of the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. And the big plus: You needn't learn any Objective-C to master MonoTouch!

Former Microsoft engineer and published app-store developer Bryan Costanich shows you how to use the tools you already know to create native apps in iOS using C# and the .NET Base Class Libraries. The magic is in Novell's implementation of Apple's Cocoa libraries in MonoTouch. You'll master the same elegant and rich Cocoa environment, but without the need to learn a new programming language.

Developing C# Applications for iPhone and iPad using MonoTouch takes you from your first "Hello, World" example through the major APIs and features of iOS. The coverage is comprehensive and makes use of frequent examples, complete with sample code you can download and reuse to create your own powerful and playful apps.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430231745
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	06/09/2011
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.10(d)

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Table of Contents

• Getting Started with MonoTouch
• Our First Application
• The Model, View, Controller Approach to Multiple Screen Applications
• iPad and Universal (iPhone/iPad) Applications
• More on Views and Controllers
• Introduction to Controls
• Standard Controls
• Content Controls
• Working with Tables
• Working with Keyboards
• Multitasking
• Working with Touch
• Working with Shared Resources
• User and Application Settings
• Working with CoreLocation
• Drawing with CoreGraphics
• Core Animation
• Notifications
• Working with Data
• Publishing to the App Store
• Third Party Libraries
• Using Objective-C Libraries and Code