Beginning iOS Game Center and Game Kit: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (Paperback)

Beginning iOS Game Center and Game Kit shows you how to use Game Center and Game Kit to create fun and polished games that use advanced features such as social networking and voice over IP (VoIP). Game Kit and Game Center can help you reach new customers through social interaction, so this book shows you how you can quickly add a level of polish to your app that used to take weeks of hard work and late nights.

Implementing a leaderboard and achievement system has never been so simple! Gone are the days of writing your own server. You'll also see how to easily add advanced networking concepts like VoIP support in hours, not days.

Learn how to quickly implement many advanced social networking concepts into your apps. You'll be guided through the process of creating a custom Game Center Manager class that can be rapidly deployed into any of your new or existing projects. Furthermore, learn how to avoid pitfalls commonly encountered by new Game Center developers.

What you’ll learn

• What Game Center and Game Kit are and how you can improve your app by using them
• How to configure your app with iTunes Connect to work with Game Center
• How to set up leaderboard and achievement systems for use within your app
• How to add a custom graphical user interface to Game Center to match the look and feel of your product
• What multiplayer and networking does to your app through Game Kit
• How to write an easy-to-implement and reusable Game Center Manager

Who this book is for

All iOS developers who want to easily bring their current or planned app to the next level. Game Center and Game Kit, despite the name, are not limited only to games—all iOS developers with a basic understanding of Cocoa and UIKit will find something useful in these APIs. They allow even a novice iOS developer to add an amazing level of polish to their apps with a minimal amount of effort.

Table of Contents

《Beginning iOS Game Center and Game Kit》向您展示如何使用Game Center和Game Kit創建有趣且精緻的遊戲，並使用高級功能，如社交網絡和語音通話（VoIP）。Game Kit和Game Center可以通過社交互動幫助您吸引新客戶，因此本書將向您展示如何快速為您的應用程序添加一定程度的精緻，而這在過去需要數周的辛勤工作和熬夜才能完成。

實現排行榜和成就系統從未如此簡單！不再需要自己編寫服務器。您還將了解如何在幾小時而不是幾天內輕鬆添加像VoIP支持這樣的高級網絡概念。

學習如何快速將許多高級社交網絡概念應用於您的應用程序中。您將被引導完成創建自定義Game Center Manager類的過程，該類可以快速部署到您的任何新項目或現有項目中。此外，還要學習如何避免新Game Center開發人員常遇到的問題。

《本書的讀者群》
所有希望輕鬆將其現有或計劃中的應用程序提升到更高水平的iOS開發人員。儘管名稱中帶有“遊戲”一詞，但Game Center和Game Kit並不僅限於遊戲-所有對Cocoa和UIKit有基本了解的iOS開發人員都可以在這些API中找到有用的東西。即使是初學者的iOS開發人員也可以輕鬆地為他們的應用程序添加令人驚嘆的精緻，只需付出最少的努力。

《目錄》
1 - 簡介
2 - 初步
3 - 排行榜
4 - 成就
5 - 匹配
6 - 對等選擇器
7 - 網絡概述
8 - 數據交換
9 - 轉基於回合的遊戲