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Xcode 6 Essentials

By : Jayant Varma
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Xcode 6 Essentials

By: Jayant Varma

Overview of this book

<p>Apple made their iOS devices easy to use and now they have extended that to their development tools such as Xcode. In Xcode, you can create native applications in the easiest way. Apple's new Xcode technology is making the development curve smoother with its easy-to-develop features and enhancements.</p> <p>Xcode can now write code with the performance-upgraded, brand new, innovative language called Swift, so you no longer need to rely on third-party frameworks to create applications.</p> <p>The book gives you a tour of the new features of Xcode 6. It introduces some important aspects such as the Swift language and its Playgrounds with visual live coding, creating interfaces, storyboards, controllers, frameworks, and live previews. Diving more into the subject, this books shows you how to debug your code, and how to build and test the application on a device or the simulator.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter, you have seen a quick tour of Xcode, keep the shortcuts and tips handy as they really do help get things done faster. The code snippets are a wonderful feature that allow for quickly setting up commonly used code with shortcut keywords. Now that you are settled in with Xcode, we can start playing with code. The language of choice for all samples from here on in the book would be Swift.

Let's head on to the next chapter and get our hands into Swift so you can learn all about this new language that everyone is excited about.