Sharing Apple Apps With Your Team, Testers & the World You'll learn how to sign up for Apple Developer Program, generate the various certificates needed, configure your app and submit an app to the App Store for approval, both manually and through automated processes through automated pipelines. You'll learn how to use Apple TestFlight to add internal and external testers and receive feedback and crash reports. iOS App Distribution starts with explaining hurdles everyone faces, such as code signing, provisioning profiles, and how to do manual releases. It'll then go into more advanced topics, including distribution through TestFlight, build customization, automation, and continuous integration. Who This Book Is For This book is for beginner to experienced developers who want to know the best and most common workflow to release an app to the App store, as well as limiting frustration by troubleshooting and debugging common issues and problems associated with distributing apps. Topics Covered in iOS App Distribution & Best Practices App Store quick start: Your quickest way from no account to the App Store. Provisioning, code signing & entitlements: In-depth explanation of what they are, why you need them, and how they work. Distribution channels & TestFlight: Learn different ways of distributing your app, within an enterprise, with internal or external testers. App Store Connect: Learn about the Apple review process, what are the guidelines, what can go wrong and how to dispute them. Build customizations: Learn the ins and outs of configuring Xcode and build configurations. Build automation: Automate builds, build servers, and learn about tools such as fastlane. Continuous integration: Build your own CI pipeline to code, build, test, release, and repeat! After reading this book, you'll take your app build process and distribution to the next level, automate most of its tedious processes, and have an easier time debugging obscure app submission problem

Cover every aspect of the app industry, from app idea generation through to marketing and performance monitoring. With this book you'll receive complete, reliable, up-to-date, and professional information and guidance. Learn iOS App Distribution is every developers thorough and accessible guide to successfully distributing apps. For readers who already know how to code and create apps, this book explains how the app industry works, how it is evolving, and what the key trends are. Rather than focus on the well-covered aspects of working with Swift and Xcode, you'll instead discover what it takes from a commercial standpoint to bring an app together and get it successfully out to customers. All the key technical aspects are simplified for you with non-technical backgrounds, and vast amounts of information are condensed into easy-to-understand visuals. What You'll Learn Review how the app industry nuances and how it works Analyze app statistics and key market trends Position an app appropriately within the industry Improve app performance and related products and services Who This Book Is For App designers, UI/UX design professionals, coders, app marketers, game designers, asset designers and app publishing companies.The book is also suitable for inventors and non-tech readers unfamiliar with the industry but interested in investing in apps

Now, one book can help you master mobile app development with both market-leading platforms: Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Perfect for both students and professionals, Learning Mobile App Development is the only tutorial with complete parallel coverage of both iOS and Android. With this guide, you can master either platform, or both--and gain a deeper understanding of the issues associated with developing mobile apps. You'll develop an actual working app on both iOS and Android, mastering the entire mobile app development lifecycle, from planning through licensing and distribution. Each tutorial in this book has been carefully designed to support readers with widely varying backgrounds and has been extensively tested in live developer training courses. If you're new to iOS, you'll also find an easy, practical introduction to Objective-C, Apple's native language.

"A comprehensive guide to building, packaging, and distribution"--Cover.

This book offers the perfect hands-on introduction to iOS development, covering everything your students need to know about Objective-C, XCode, and modern iOS user interface development. With sample projects and end-of-chapter exercises, this book is ideal for classroom instruction. The authors get started fast with Objective-C, covering basic syntax, memory management, Foundation Classes, development paradigms, blocks, threads, and more. Next, they show how to use XCode and related tools to build projects, instrument and efficiently debug code, and deploy apps. In the next part, hey turn to interfaces, covering design, content construction, View Controllers, Views, Animations, Touch, Table Views, and even a taste of Core Data.

Describes how to use Xcode tools, the Objective-C programming language, and the core frameworks to build several sample applications.

Explore the complex app development concepts for iOS application programming with fun and ease. KEY FEATURES ● In-depth knowledge with practical examples on how to develop professional iOS apps. ● Includes coverage on the entire iOS application development, right from designing the UI to application deployment. ● Get to know more about machine learning and augmented reality, and their impact on iOS apps. DESCRIPTION Grab this book if you want to make Apps for Apple’s iOS devices and that too efficiently like a skilled developer. This book covers the complete development of iOS applications, right from concepts of designing an application to adding machine learning capabilities in the applications. You will learn and practice the App development environment with Xcode and Swift programming. Concepts like different types of views and UI components, data manipulations, animations, different iOS screen views, and integrating web services are covered in detail with examples. You will also learn the popular machine learning technology and fascinating features like Augmented Reality to be put into use in your app. You will learn to run automated application testing, use SwiftUI, and deploy applications on the network. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Build strong familiarity with the entire application development environment. ● Revive essential coding concepts and methods of Swift and Xcode. ● Simplify integration of iOS apps with web services, including JSON and XML decoding. ● Learn to work with iOS ARKit and add the experience of augmented reality to applications. ● Work with popular SwiftUI, XCTest, and a growing machine learning library, CoreML. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book caters to mobile developers, application developers, and students who want to build sound proficiency in the entire process of iOS Application development. Knowing basic programming concepts would be good, although not mandatory. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. iOS App Development Environment 2. Swift Programming Language 3. User Interface and Data Handling 4. Different Views in iOS Devices 5. Image and Animation 6. Multi-View Application and Navigation 7. Data Persistence for iOS Devices 8. Integration with Web Services 9. Augmented Reality 10. Machine Learning 11. App Testing and Deployment 12. SwiftUI