Macos By Tutorials First Edition

Learn macOS development!You're an experienced iOS developer and have always wanted to develop a native macOS app. But, you have no idea where to begin.Never fear! macOS by Tutorials is here to guide you. You'll be creating your own beautiful macOS apps in no time!Who This Book is ForThis book is for developers with some experience developing for iOS and who are familiar with Swift, Xcode and SwiftUI.Topics Covered in macOS by TutorialsBuilding a Native App: Use SwiftUI to build a complete, beautiful, native macOS app with full multiple window support.Planning and Prototyping: Learn how to plan and prototype data models. Once you're happy with the prototype, you'll incorporate your model into a full-featured app.Making Menu Bar Apps: Learn how to build an app that lives solely in the macOS menu bar.Creating Document-based Apps: Learn how to build an app that manages its own document type.Building a GUI front end: See how to create a graphical user interface for a system command line command.Building Services and Shortcuts: Explore how to enable automation in your app so it can be used from the Services menu and the Shortcuts app.Distributing Your App: Explore the options available for distributing your macOS apps.One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to create and distribute your own native macOS apps.

Learn how to run your iOS apps on macOS using Catalyst! Catalyst allows you to take code that you've written for iOS devices and run it on macOS, opening up a whole new platform - and a new universe of users - that you can reach using your existing code and knowledge. But, there are differences in the platforms; you need to know these differences to make great macOS apps. Reading and understanding all the official Apple documentation, and even knowing where to look, can be challenging and time-consuming. This is where Catalyst by Tutorials comes in! In this book, you'll learn how to take an iOS app to macOS the easy way: by following fun and easy-to-read tutorials. Who This Book Is For This book is for any developer who wants to learn how to use Catalyst to apply iOS skills to developing apps for macOS. Topics Covered in Catalyst by Tutorials Multi-Window Support: Learn how to support multiple app windows on iPad and Mac. Drag-and-Drop: Copy and move images in your app using Drag-and-Drop API. Menus: Context menus are new to iPad, but on Mac, they're essential. Learn how to create context menus and the main menu for your Mac app. Keyboard shortcuts: Learn how to give your users a productivity boost with keyboard shortcuts. Preferences: Give your users control over settings in your apps with preferences. Mouse: One of the main differences in iOS and Mac apps is mouse support. Learn how this difference impacts your Catalyst app. Toolbar & TouchBar: Give your app some extra polish by supporting these Mac-only UI elements. Distribution: Once you have your Mac app, you'll learn what's different from iOS in getting that app to your users. One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you'll be prepared to take advantage of all that Catalyst has to offer!

Master SwiftUI! Every developer wants to build the most fluid and engaging declarative UI for their apps with as little code as possible. The latest addition to the Apple toolkit - SwiftUI - will help you do just that. This book contains everything you need to know about this exciting and new UI toolkit. You'll build four apps as you learn to create modern, responsive UI and animations that look great on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and even macOS. Who This Book Is For This book is for intermediate iOS developers who already know the basics of iOS, and who wish to know everything there is to know about SwiftUI. It starts with a basic introduction of the toolkit and its features, with later chapters teaching you more complex concepts like testing and animations. Topics Covered in SwiftUI by Tutorials Understanding & Integrating Swift UI: Gain an overview of the SwiftUI features that will teach you to build great apps quickly. The Apple Ecosystem: Learn the differences between Apple ́s platforms when dealing with SwiftUI. Customize your apps for AppKit, UIKit, WatchKit, tvOS, iPadOS and Catalyst. Controls & User Input: Learn about controls such as d104Field, Button, Toggle, Slider, Stepper, pickers and more. Testing & Debugging: Learn how to create user interface tests and debug your app. Drawing Custom Graphics & Using Animations: Create drawings, graphics, animations and even view transitions in SwiftUI. Complex Interfaces: Use existing custom controls from SwiftUI to build even more complex interfaces in Swift. One thing you can count on: After you finish reading this book, you'll be able to take advantage of the latest and greatest features of SwiftUI to bring modern declarative UX to your apps.

This Perl tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Perl language himself. Topics include introduction of ActivePerl; data types, variables and expressions; scalars, arrays, hash maps, and references; input/output and file systems; DBM files and MySQL access; socket communication; generating executables; XML::Simple and RPC:XML modules; LWP::UserAgent, HTTP::Request and SOAP::Lite modules; CGI, and IIS/Apache integrations. Updated in 2024 (Version v6.02) with minor updates. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/Perl.

Learn & Master SwiftUI!?Every developer wants to build the most fluid and engaging declarative UI for their apps with as little code as possible. SwiftUI will help you do just that. Learn all the main concepts through an easy-to-follow tutorials where you'll build apps that teach you to create modern, responsive UI and animations that look great on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and even macOS.?Who This Book Is For?This book is for intermediate iOS developers who already know the basics of iOS, and who wish to know everything there is to know about SwiftUI.?Topics Covered in SwiftUI by Tutorials?SwiftUI Overview: Learn SwiftUI features, as well as the differences between Apple ́s platforms with SwiftUI. Customize your apps for AppKit, UIKit, WatchKit, tvOS, iPadOS and even Catalyst.Testability: See how to apply UI Testing to your SwiftUI apps in this very simple, yet powerful course.Controls & User Input: Learn about controls such as TextField, Button, Toggle, Slider, Stepper, pickers and many more.State & Data Flow: Learn how to bind data to the UI, about reactive updates to the UI through state management, and in-depth usage of the attributes related to SwiftUI.Accessibility: Learn how to navigate your app with VoiceOver on an iOS device and use the SwiftUI Accessibility API attributes to improve your app's accessible UI.Drawing Custom Graphics & Animations: Create drawings, graphics, animations and even view transitions in SwiftUI.macOS: Learn how to create a document-based Mac app and later start with an existing iOS app and learn how to re-use code, views and assets for creating a macOS app.One thing you can count on: After you finish reading this book, you'll be able to take advantage of the latest and greatest features of SwiftUI to bring modern declarative UX to your apps.

Beginning Mac OS X Programming Every Mac OS X system comes with all the essentials required for programming: free development tools, resources, and utilities. However, finding the place to begin may be challenging, especially if you have no prior development knowledge. This comprehensive guide offers you an ideal starting point to writing programs on Mac OS X, with coverage of the latest release - 1.4 "Tiger." With its hands-on approach, the book examines a particular element and then presents step-by-step instructions that walk you through how to use that element when programming. You'll quickly learn how to efficiently start writing programs on Mac OS X using languages such as C, Objective-C(r), and AppleScript(r), technologies such as Carbon(r) and Cocoa(r), and other Unix tools. In addition, you'll discover techniques for incorporating the languages in order to create seamless applications. All the while, you can follow along on your own system so that you'll be prepared to apply your new Mac OS X skills to real-world projects. What you will learn from this book The major role the new Xcode plays in streamlining Mac OS X development The process for designing a graphical user interface on Mac OS X that conforms to Apple's guidelines How to write programs in the C and Objective-C programming languages The various scripting languages available on the Mac OS X system and what tasks each one is best suited to perform How to write shell scripts that interact with pre-installed command-line tools Who this book is for This book is for novice programmers who want to get started writing programs that run on Mac OS X. Experienced programmers who are new to the Mac will also find this book to be a useful overview of the Mac development environment. Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Learn & Master watchOS with SwiftUI!watchOS with SwiftUI by Tutorials is here to help you learn all you need to know about Apple Watch development using the new declarative SwiftUI framework for building modern and engaging user interfaces. Learn all the main concepts by building different watchOS apps that implement all all of these functionalities. In this book, you will cover most of the concepts required to master watchOS development.Who This Book is ForThis book is for beginner and intermediate developers who wish to know how to develop watchOS apps in a declarative and modern way by implementing SwiftUI.Topics Covered in watchOS With SwiftUI by Tutorials:watchOS app project structure: Apple Watch has a slightly different project structure compared to iOS. So you will learn those differences.Use the Digital Crown in your apps: Build the famous Pong videogame but for watchOS and learn how the Digital Crown can enhance your users experience.Watch Connectivity: The Watch Connectivity framework will show you the different ways you can transfer data between iOS and watchOS apps.Snapshots: Snapshots provide a way for users to quickly view the state of an app showing updated and relevant information.Notifications: watchOS offers support for several different types of notifications and allows you to customize them to the individual needs of your watch app.watchOS app Lifecycle: Find out about the Apple Watch Lifecycles and how it transitions between states while extending current runtime sessions.Complications: Complications are small elements that appear on the user's selected watch face and provide quick access to frequently used data from within your app.Watch Face sharing: You can easily share your own custom Watch Faces through your iOS device or via web.Signing in with Apple Watch: Sign in with Apple to allow simple and straight-forward registration and authentication.HealthKit: Implement HealthKit in your WatchOS app to track health-related information and take advantage of Apple Health capabilities.One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to develop professional Apple Watch apps with SwiftUI.

This Python tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Python language himself. Topics include: installing Python environments on Windows, macOS and Linux computer; Python built-in data types; variables, operations, expressions and statements; user-defined functions; iterators, generators and list comprehensions; modules and packages; sys, os, and pathlib modules; Anaconda Python environment manager; Jupyter Notebooks; NumPy, SciPy libraries. Updated in 2023 (Version v2.14) with minor changes. For latest updates and free sample chapters, visit https://www.herongyang.com/Python.