iOS Drawing: Practical UIKit Solutions
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 311 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook; 1st edition (October 15, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321947878
- ISBN-13: 978-0321947871
eBook Description:
iOS Drawing: Practical UIKit Solutions: Covers iOS 7 and Xcode 5
Apple lavished iOS with a rich and evolving library of resolution-independent 2D drawing utilities. Its APIs include powerful features such as transparency, path-based drawing, anti-aliasing, and more. Harness these low-level, lightweight drawing routines in your apps to build images, to create PDFs, to display views, and to print. In this guide, Erica Sadun, bestselling author of The Core iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook and The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook, helps readers explore iOS drawing through an abundance of examples alongside plenty of explanations and tips. This short work provides the basic how-to developers need to get started.
- The basic concepts of Quartz (Core Graphics) and UIKit drawing
- The coordinate system, paths, masking, and clipping
- Text drawing
- Transparency and alpha channels, drawing modes, blending, colors, and spaces
- Transforms and geometry
- Patterns, shadows, and gradients
- Bitmaps and pixels
In this guide, Erica Sadun, bestselling author of The Core iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook and The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook, helps readers explore iOS drawing through an abundance of examples alongside plenty of explanations and tips. This short work provides the basic how-to developers need to get started. Apple lavished iOS with a rich and evolving library of resolution-independent 2D drawing utilities. Its APIs include powerful features such as transparency, path-based drawing, anti-aliasing, and more. Harness these low-level, lightweight drawing routines in your apps to build images, to create PDFs, to display views, and to print.
You will learn about these specific topics:
- The basic concepts of Quartz (Core Graphics) and UIKit drawing
- The coordinate system, paths, masking, and clipping
- Text drawing
- Transparency and alpha channels, drawing modes, blending, colors, and spaces
- Transforms and geometry
- Patterns, shadows, and gradients
- Bitmaps and pixels
iOS Drawing: Practical UIKit Solutions: Covers iOS 7 and Xcode 5
Apple lavished iOS with a rich and evolving library of resolution-independent 2D drawing utilities. Its APIs include powerful features such as transparency, path-based drawing, anti-aliasing, and more. Harness these low-level, lightweight drawing routines in your apps to build images, to create PDFs, to display views, and to print.
In this guide, Erica Sadun, bestselling author of The Core iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook and The Advanced iOS 6 Developer’s Cookbook, helps readers explore iOS drawing through an abundance of examples alongside plenty of explanations and tips. This short work provides the basic how-to developers need to get started.
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