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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


Xcode has seen a lot of improvements and changes. Creating an application has become easier and more integrated than it used to be a couple of years ago. Certificates were a big hassle, which has now been integrated into the Xcode workflow. Some developers might feel that the way release binaries are created are a bit strange and rather inconvenient, whereas on the other hand, you no longer have to search for it, zip it, and so on. It is all integrated. Creating an application with Xcode is much faster and easier, add to that the introduction of the Swift language makes it simply a breeze. Hope this book has been able to introduce you to Xcode and get you started and look forward to seeing what you can achieve with this knowledge.