Learning iOS UI Development

Learning iOS UI Development

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Credits

Author

Yari D'areglia

Manish Nainani

Content Development Editor

Rashmi Suvarna

Technical Editor

Humera Shaikh

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Yari D'areglia is a developer with 15 years of experience in software architecture

and development. During the last 4 years, he built successful iOS and OS X

applications for developers as well as the mainstream public.

Yari, together with Nicola Armellini, founded Jumpzero, a company based in Italy

that released countless mobile, desktop, and web applications.

Currently, he is employed as a senior iOS engineer at Neato Robotics, a company

based in Silicon Valley, where he works on the communication between robots and

iOS devices.

Yari writes at

www.ThinkAndBuild.it

First approaching the industry through the video game medium, he partnered

with Yari D'Areglia and founded Jumpzero, specializing in the user experience

and interface design of OS X and iOS applications. At the same time, Nicola helped

grow the audience of Yari's Think & Build blog by editing and reviewing his in-depth

tutorial articles.

A fan of redistributing knowledge and making it accessible, he taught his craft and

its implications in terms of marketing and communication as a lecturer at European

Institute of Design in Milan.

As a side project slowly turned into his main focus, Nicola started ddling with virtual

reality and exploring new ways of interacting with machines and CG environments,

University of Oldenburg in 2000. Since then, he has worked on different topics in

computer science. As researcher on theoretical computer science at University,

Christian switched to embedded system design at a research institute later on. In

2010, he started his own company, CoSynth, which develops embedded systems and

intelligent cameras for industrial automation. In addition, Christian is a long-time

member of the Irrlicht 3D Engine developer team.