Discover customization and productivity tips with this quick guide for iPhone usersKey FeaturesLearn everything about your iPhone quickly to use it as an effective tool for communication, entertainment, and workCustomize your phone’s look and sound and modify the iOS’s privacy settingsKeep your apps tidy and organized using the App LibraryBook DescriptionThe iPhone is the most popular smartphone available on the market, renow...

Explore how to use ARKit to create iOS apps and learn the basics of augmented reality while diving into ARKit specific topics. This book reveals how augmented reality allows you to view the screen on an iOS device, aim the camera at a nearby scene, and view both the real items in that scene as well as a graphic image overlaid on to that scene.You’ll start by accessing the camera and teaching your app to track the world around its device. You'll then see how to position nodes and cr...

Create video game elements using the Godot game engine, gaining practical experience in programming and video game development. The Godot game engine uses a simplified programming language called GDScript, which closely resembles Python. By learning GDScript, you can focus more on learning the basics of programming.You’ll explore concepts such as variables and data structures variables used to store information about video game objects that can be manipulated using a keyboard or a ...

If you’ve always wanted to write a screenplay or a novel, you may be wondering, “What makes a great story?” It’s not just interesting characters, memorable dialogue, or explosive action scenes. What makes a great screenplay (or novel) is a great story.Every great story, from classic novels and stage plays to today’s modern films, follow the same basic, proven story structure that alternates between contrasting problems and solutions to maintain and maximize suspense.In the ...

Learn how to code for the iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, and MacBook using Swift, Apple's hottest programming language.Fully updated to cover the new MacBook Touch Bar, macOS Programming for Absolute Beginners will not only teach complete programming novices how to write macOS programs, but it can also help experienced programmers moving to the Mac for the first time. You will learn the principles of programming, how to use Swift and Xcode, and how to combine your knowledge into...

If you thought hacking was just about mischief-makers hunched over computers in the basement, think again. As seasoned author Wallace Wang explains, hacking can also mean questioning the status quo, looking for your own truths and never accepting at face value anything authorities say or do.The completely revised fourth edition of this offbeat, non-technical book examines what hackers do, how they do it, and how you can protect yourself. Written in the same informative, irreverent,...

Tame the power of Apple’s new user interface toolkit, SwiftUI. This revised and expanded Seventh Edition covers the basic information you need to get up and running quickly to turn your great ideas into working iOS apps with stunningly interactive interfaces using SwiftUI. New chapters cover expandable text fields, multidate pickers, using gauges, progress views and variable SF symbol icons, creating chats, and using the navigation stack and split view.You’ll start with basic desig...

Everyone can come up with a great idea for a story. That’s easy. The hard part is turning a great idea into a great story. In the movie world, Hollywood often tries to turn great ideas into great stories by relying on A-list stars and directors, expensive computer-generated special effects, and plenty of gunfire and explosions with hints of sex thrown in. While all this can attract an audience’s attention, it can’t turn a great idea into a great story all by itself. Just witness th...

If you've ever lived with a cat, or have to live with one right now, you know the trouble, problems, and constant annoyances these tiny, furry little demons from the underworld can inflict on your patience and your soul. If you've tried reading traditional how-to books that purport to teach you how to deal with a cat, you may get the impression that cats are reasonable and rational creatures, and the frustration and problems you’re having are all your fault.Now it’s finally time to...

One little known secret of Hollywood is Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software, a low-cost alternative to expensive screenwriting word processor software. Fade In not only costs a fraction of the price of popular screenwriting programs like Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter, but it can run on the three most popular operating systems in use today (Windows, OS X, and Linux) while giving you the freedom to make multiple copies to run on all of your computers. In comparison, other ...

The Structure of Game Design is designed to help aspiring and existing game designers turn their ideas into working games. Creating a game involves understanding the core foundational elements of all types of games from paper-based games to the latest video games. By understanding how these core principles work in all types of games, you can apply these same principles to design your own game.Games are about goals, structure, play and fun. While everyone will always have t...

Swift OS X Programming for Absolute Beginners is your step-by-step guide to learning how to code using Swift, Apple's hottest new programming language. This book will not only teach complete programming novices how to write OS X programs, but it can also help experienced programmers moving to the Macintosh for the first time. You will learn to understand the principles of programming, how to use Swift and Xcode, and how to combine your knowledge into writing OS X programs....