iPad Programming

This quick-start guide will have you writing iPad apps right away using a combination of the familiar iPhone APIs along with the new APIs and additional templates designed specifically for creating iPad applications.

- Moving from the iPhone to the iPad
- Working with the new split views
- Using gestures to interact effectively on the big screen
- Interacting with popovers and modal dialogs
- Creating and using custom keyboards
- Implementing custom drawing
- Working with the movie player
- Displaying content on an external screen
- Sharing documents and files
- Connecting to and coordinating with other devices

Every time you turn around it seems as if there's another ten thousand apps added to the App Store for the iPhone. If you're building iPad-specific apps, it's a brand new day with plenty of opportunity. In this book we don't just teach you to write apps that run on an iPad, we teach you to create apps that delight users because they wouldn't make sense running on any other device.