For Dummies iPhone Application Development, 3rd Edition 978-0-470-87996-2 Benutzerhandbuch
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Part I: Getting Started
When you get to Paddington Station, you really don’t have a clue where the
hotel that someone at the office booked for you might be. You touch Getting
Around, and the application allows you to use the hotel address that is in
your iPhone Contacts, and then gives you your options when it comes to
finally finding that big, comfortable, English bed. These options include walk-
ing, taking a taxi, and public transit. You touch Tube, and it directs you to the
nearest Tube stop and then displays fares, schedules, and how to buy a ticket.
hotel that someone at the office booked for you might be. You touch Getting
Around, and the application allows you to use the hotel address that is in
your iPhone Contacts, and then gives you your options when it comes to
finally finding that big, comfortable, English bed. These options include walk-
ing, taking a taxi, and public transit. You touch Tube, and it directs you to the
nearest Tube stop and then displays fares, schedules, and how to buy a ticket.
Figure 1-1:
The Mobile
Travel411
application
can use
your current
location.
How much of a fantasy is this?
Not much. Most of this application already exists. What’s more, it took me
only a little more than three months to develop that application, starting
from where you are now, with no iPhone programming experience.
only a little more than three months to develop that application, starting
from where you are now, with no iPhone programming experience.
Creating a Compelling User Experience
What users are after — and what devices like the iPhone enable — is when
the separation between them and
the separation between them and
✓
Other people
✓
Tools and information
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The application itself
is reduced to almost nothing.
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