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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>

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Xcode 6 Essentials
Xcode 6 Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Xcode
Introduction to Xcode
Requirements and installing Xcode
Features of Xcode
What's new in Xcode 6?
Summary
2
Tour of Xcode
Tour of Xcode
Starting Xcode
Creating a new project
Xcode overview
The Apple development languages
Summary
3
Playgrounds
Playgrounds
Introduction
Swift Playgrounds
Learning Swift
Summary
4
Interface Builder
Interface Builder
Introducing Interface Builder
Summary
5
Custom Controls
Custom Controls
An introduction to custom controls
The basics
Summary
6
Debugging
Debugging
Breakpoints
Summary
7
Building and Running
Building and Running
Simulator
Preparing for distribution
Setting project-wide properties
Summary
Conditional Execution and Interface Designing
Conditional Execution and Interface Designing
More?.Swift!
Differences between iOS 7.x and 8.x SDK
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Smart Cai is a Chinese iOS developer with 3 years of experience in the field of IT. Currently, he works as a software engineer at Beijing Effective Biz Info Tech Co, LTD. He has also published an application on the App Store named, 今目标 (a business iOS App).

Ben Dodson is a freelance iOS developer in the UK. He has been working on application development since the introduction of the App Store and has built a number of high-ranking applications for clients, including Channel 4, Nectar, ExpenseMagic, and NBC. Ben has also published a number of his own applications including Highlights (featured as "iPad App of the Week" and "Best of 2011 Travel Apps" by Apple) and WallaBee (voted "Best European Gaming Startup 2012" at Nonick 012).

Ben spends the majority of his time working on WallaBee, the largest collecting game on the App Store, of which he is the founder and the lead developer. He is currently working on a number of exciting projects written in Swift and using the latest iOS 8 technologies. He is also working on a major game for the upcoming Apple Watch.

Find out more about him at www.bendodson.com.

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