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Objective C Memory Management Essentials

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Objective C Memory Management Essentials

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Objective-C Memory Management Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing Xcode 6


Xcode 6 was announced by Apple at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 2, 2014 and it was officially released on September 17, 2014. Xcode 6 improved a lot with regards to features and tools for iOS and Mac developers as it has support for the new Swift programming language created by Apple and announced in 2014.

Xcode 6 also includes new features such as live rendering within Interface Builder where your handwritten UI code is displayed within the UI canvas and any change is also instantly reflected when you type in your code. It also has a new view debugging tool that you can use to help you see your UI layers in a 3D visualization so that you can understand the composition of your interface and see and identify any clipped or overlapped views.

With Apple releasing newer devices every year with different screen sizes, having to support multiple screen devices is not an easy task to do. However, Xcode 6 now has new features that are aimed at reducing the...