This completely revised and updated edition of the bestselling iOS guide shows you how to pull in the SDK's enormous feature set and deliver powerful, real- world apps for iPhone and iPad using modern Swift programming techniques.
"Metal enables Apple developers to maximize performance in demanding tasks like 3D graphics, games, scientific programming, visualization, and GPU-accelerated machine learning. Metala. Programming Guide is the authoritative, practical guide to Metal for all iOS programmers who are interested in graphics programming but don't know where to start. Pioneering Apple developer Janie Clayton covers everything from basic draw calls to advanced parallel computing, combining easy-to-understand conceptual explanations with well-tested Swift 4/Xcode 9 sample code (available for download at GitHub)."--Amazon.com.
Reveals how to create a wide variety of dynamic, appealing, and effective mobile applications for the iPhone SDK, discussing the essential tools, APIs, and techniques used to program the platform; the iPhone's user interface components; networking capabilities; performance and debugging tools; Interface Builder; and the use of the XCode IDE to manage source code, images and sound, database files, and more. Original. (Intermediate)
Java developers who need to add audio, video, or interactive media creation and playback to their applications find that QuickTime Java is a powerful toolkit, but one that's not easy to get into. This book offers the first real look at this important software and lets impatient early adopters focus on learning by doing