GameSalad Essentials

So you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad game, but you've never programmed before. Where to start? Here! With GameSalad, you can design, build, and publish a 2D game in the App Store using an easy-to-use, no-programming-requiredgame creation tool. Learn GameSalad for iOSshows you how to set up your development environment and how to create a variety of simple 2D games from a breakout-style game to an arcade shooter to a maze game. You'll also learn how to use GameSalad to create a non-game app as well.This book also takes you beyond game development into getting your game into the App Store, using iAd, and marketing your game. A clear, step-by-step approach to GameSalad for the complete beginner Create fun, complete, and fully functional gam...

Whether youre new to telecommunications and IT or simply want an understandable, comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art, this book is for you. Leading telecommunications trainer and consultant Lillian Goleniewski combines clear explanations of fundamental principles with in-depth, up-to-the minute coverage of networking and the Internet. More than competitive guides, Telecommunications Essentials combines the global breadth and technical depth readers need to truly master telecommunications. Telecommunications Essentials covers the entire spectrum of telecommunications technology and services, current and emerging: telephony (voice networks), IP telephony, data networks, broadband, cable, xDSL, wireless, the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Netw...

Android Essentials is a nofrills, nononsense, codecentric run through the guts of application development on Googles Mobile OS. This book uses the development of a sample application to work through topics, focusing on giving developers the essential tools and examples required to make viable commercial applications work. Covering the entirety of the Android catalog in less than 150 pages is simply impossible. Instead, this book focuses on just four main topics: the application life cycle and OS integration, user interface, locationbased services, and networking. Thorough, complete, and useful work on the nuts and bolts of application development in Android Example driven and practically minded A tool for hobbyists and professionals who want to cr...