Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Guides
The Guides include detailed information about development and coding topics. These are the key orientation
documents. Some guides, especially the human interface guidelines for iOS, iPad, and OS X, are essential read-
ing. Part of the iPad Human Interface Guidelines document is shown in Figure 6.8. However, the guide con-
tents are often terse, and important practical points may be glossed over or missing. In practice, you sometimes
need to look for successful working code in independent developer forums or in the code samples included
with the documentation.
FIGURE 6.8
You should certainly read the Human Interface Guidelines for your target platforms before you begin developing.
But you'll find it equally useful to look at the interfaces of popular and successful applications for a more practical
view of application design.
