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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 that, despite reducing errors at precompile time, errors can still slip in and crash or prevent your code from doing what is expected. Apple provides a powerful debugger and features that allow you to debug your code, both visually and functionally. You also saw how you can create custom Quick Look previews for your own classes. Lastly, you also received a brief introduction to the debug console and its commands. For the scope of this book, we had a brief look at the relevant features in Xcode that you might use for debugging. Debugging by itself is vast and can warrant an entire book.

In the next chapter, we will compile and package everything to create our application ready for deployment to the testers or the store.