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Chapter 1
Exploring the World of
Apps and Widgets
In This Chapter
Discovering Dashcode terminology
Getting to know apps and widgets
Working with Safari Web apps
Using iPhone Web apps
F
rom the very beginning, the Mac has demonstrated that it doesn’t have
to hurt to use a computer. You don’t have to type some obscure com-
mand; instead, you can move a mouse to click an icon. You don’t have to
create a program with thousands of lines of obscure computer code in order
to generate a program. The folks at Apple have raised the bar higher and
higher so that building programs and using them is easier and easier.
And from the beginning, some people have snorted at this concept of making
computers easy to use. Talk to old-timers or read some newspaper and maga-
zine articles from the 1980s, and you’ll understand how suspicious people
were of the mouse . . . not to mention all those pictures on the screen.
Apple and the Mac started to change all those viewpoints. Dashcode is just
the latest example of Apple’s approach to computers “for the rest of us.”
Dashcode makes it easy to build software that’s easy to use and that does
amazing things.
This chapter shows you what you can do with Dashcode and how to do it.
Developing Software for Apple Computers
Apple builds hardware — products such as the Mac itself, iPod, iPhone, and
iPad. It also builds software to make those devices work — operating systems
such as Mac OS X and iOS. (Formerly called iPhone OS, iOS is the operating
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Pagina 1 - Apps and Widgets

Chapter 1Exploring the World of Apps and WidgetsIn This Chapter▶ Discovering Dashcode terminology▶ Getting to know apps and widgets▶ Working with Safa

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18Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It those two values, as you see in Figure 1-8. (You can see how to get the key in “Chapter 8.) ✓ Pr

Pagina 3 - Introducing Dashcode

19 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and WidgetsNavigating the DataDashcode templates provide tools for users to navigate through data easily. On

Pagina 4 - Talking the Dashcode Talk

20Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It Figure 1-10: Details are provided for each item. Dashcode can use data that is included in the

Pagina 5 - Visiting a Small World:

21 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and Widgetscode to the project to augment the template’s code, but, most often, you cus-tomize with specific

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22Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It through data is useful, but widgets shine at presenting changing data to you in a way in which y

Pagina 7 - Select fonts

23 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and WidgetsAt the bottom of Figure 1-13, you can see a section called Localization. This section supports th

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24Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It Figure 1-15: RSS shows several stories. Dashcode lets you specify the feed as with Daily Feed,

Pagina 9 - Apps Apple’s Way

25 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and Widgets Figure 1-17: Users set options on the back of Dashboard widgets. Trekking with Safari Web AppsSa

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26Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It Figure 1-18: RSS Safari Web app behaves like the RSS Dashboard widget. The interface looks diff

Pagina 11 - Navigating the Data

27 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and WidgetsCalling iPhone Web AppsThe Safari RSS template allows you to build a mobile Safari version for iP

Pagina 12 - Understanding the Structure

10Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It system for iPhone, iPad, and more wonders to come.) Apple also builds appli-cation programs for

Pagina 13 - Customize

28Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It The settings for the mobile Safari version are shown in Figure 1-22. The feed and the options (n

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29 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and Widgets Figure 1-22: You can see the original article in Safari on iPhone. Figure 1-23: Specific iPhone

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11 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and WidgetsApple has found a way to provide access to specific hardware features through its Safari Web brow

Pagina 17 - Trekking with Safari Web Apps

12Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It Maybe it’s because learning how to use the development tools for Mac OS X and iOS is a major pro

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13 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and Widgets ✓ The end result of a project is a product, which can be a widget or an app. You can deploy a co

Pagina 19 - Calling iPhone Web Apps

14Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It Figure 1-2: Build the template for mobile Safari. If you click one of the pop-up menus in the s

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15 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and Widgets Figure 1-3: Select fonts and font sizes. Figure 1-6 shows how you make such a change. This layou

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16Part I: Introducing Dashcode and How You Can Use It Figure 1-4: The appro-priate interface elements are auto-matically used. Figure 1-5: Count dow

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17 Chapter 1: Exploring the World of Apps and Widgets Figure 1-6: Modify the settings. Categorizing Widgets and Apps Apple’s WayAs you explore the tem

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