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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)

An introduction to custom controls


In the previous chapter, we saw that we could quickly build our UIs in Interface Builder. We added components or elements from the library onto the views. However, Apple cannot provide developers with every conceivable control as developers keep coming up with new and innovative ideas to add beautiful features to an app, other than just simple basic TextBoxes, Labels, TableViews, and so on. Creating a custom control is not exactly new. However, the new features that Apple has added in Xcode 6 are quite exciting and these will unfold in this chapter.