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Addison-Wesley is releasing three new eBooks for Apple developers: The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook, Second Edition : , providing information on how to build applications using the iPhone 3.0 SDK, Core Animation : , and Cocoa Programming Developer’s Handbook : . Print versions of the titles will be published later this month.


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- Expanded with over 500 pages of new material, The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook, Second Edition : , by Erica Sadun, includes sample code developers can use royalty-free in their own iPhone or iPod touch applications. This new edition completely updated for the iPhone 3.0 SDK starts out with an introduction to Objective-C 2.0 for developers who might be new to the

platform, focuses on Xcode and Interface Builder, and shows how to set up and configure an iPhone Developer account. Over 30,000 iPhone developers turned to the first edition of The iPhone Developer's Cookbook.


- Core Animation : , by Marcus Zarra and Matt Long, shows developers how to leverage Core Animation in their Mac and iPhone applications. Each full-color reference chapter focuses on a particular section or function of Core Animation and shows readers through examples how to implement the code. Sample projects are provided with each chapter to further illustrate the points being made; the sample code is available as a downloadable disk image so you can tweak the code and add it to your own projects.


- Cocoa Programming Developer’s Handbook : is a comprehensive, practical reference that brings together all the knowledge, techniques, and code that experienced Mac OS X programmers need to build rich, powerful Cocoa applications. It fully reflects the latest Cocoa innovations, including architectural changes and tools introduced with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6). Author David Chisnall addresses virtually every aspect of Cocoa application development, from advanced multimedia programming to networking.

For more information on Mac Programming books and resources available from Pearson, please visit: www.informit.com/learnmac :

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