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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 saw how a storyboard contains several scenes and how they could be connected via segues. This helps create quick interactive mock-ups that can be provided to clients or your teams. You also learned how you can set up constraints and how to create adaptive UI's using the size classes. You also learned about dragging to the code to create outlets or action functions.

If you are feeling adventurous or when you feel comfortable, try to use segues and display all of the stooges data using a single view, having Table View populate dynamically from a data source.

In the next chapter, we will have a look at creating custom controls. Custom controls are the controls that are not available with the standard controls that come with Xcode; they are created by developers.