Introduces all things iOS related including creating iPhone, iPad, and iPod apps; opening Xcode; and integrating the iCloud service into your applications.
Build your own distributed sensor network to collect, analyze, and visualize real-time data about our human environment including noise level, temperature, and people flow. With this hands-on book, you ll learn how to turn your project idea into working hardware, using the [...]
Although developers have covered a lot of topics and activities with more than 725,000 apps for iOS devices, they have yet to tap the riches of location-based and augmented reality applications. This book shows you how to use iPhone's sensors -- the three-axis [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Release: 28.08.2013 / Delivery time: Pre-Order (Article not released yet)
. Modern mobile platforms, such as Apple's iPhone and iPad, come with a growing range of sensors; GPS, accelerometers, magnetometers and gyroscopes. This book guides you through how to make use of these sensors, giving you the necessary tools and experience to develop [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 2011 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
Take advantage of iPhone and iPad sensors and advanced geolocation technologies to build state-of-the-art location applications. In this concise hands-on guide, author Alasdair Allan (Learning iOS Programming) takes you deep inside Apple s Core Location framework, Map Kit, [...]
. This book looks at how to integrate iOS devices into distributed sensors network, both to make use of its own on-board sensors in such networks, but also as a hub. Beyond the discussion of basic client-server architectures, and making use of the existing wireless [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 2011 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
Augmented Reality has become one of the killer applications for the iOS platform. This book not only walks you through building a simple location-aware AR toolkit, but delves deeper still to look at computer vision and AR. By the end you'll be left with a set of tools and [...]
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Release: 28.06.2013 / Delivery time: Pre-Order (Article not released yet)
Get a rapid introduction to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch programming. With this easy-to-follow guide, you ll learn the steps necessary for developing your first marketable iOS application, from opening Xcode to submitting your product to the App Store. Whether you re a [...]
"Persian Steel" focuses on the collection of Persian steel objects assembled by the well-known Iranian sculptor Parviz Tanavoli and illustrates why metalwork has made such a dynamic contribution to the arts and crafts of Iran and the Islamic world. The arms and armor, [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 2006 / Delivery time: at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
This volume offers an introduction to the field of semantics and provides coverage of the main perspectives. The underlying theme is that meanings are cognitively motivated and that expressing them through language is an essential means of cementing human bonding and of [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 15.01.2001 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
Who does what in the family, and how far do the divisions and inequalities which occur in a family context reflect those in society as a whole? This introductory text to the sociology of the family combines recent feminist interpretations of domestic life with the [...]
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Released: 1991 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
This volume brings together a collection of original writings, offering key readings of significant moments in the sociological understanding of the family. In doing so, it presents a wide range of recent source material.
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 17.03.1999 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
If you want to start programming for the iPhone or iPod Touch, this book is the easy-to-follow guide you need. You'll learn hands-on about the Xcode suite of tools, the Objective-C programming language, and the core frameworks by writing sample apps. Before you know it, [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 2010


