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Learning Xcode 8

By : Jak Tiano
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Learning Xcode 8

By: Jak Tiano

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a breakthrough in mobile computing and the birth of world-changing mobile apps. With a reputation as one of the most user-centric and developer-friendly platforms, iOS is the best place to launch your next great app idea. As the official tool to create iOS applications, Xcode is chock full of features aimed at making a developer’s job easier, faster, and more fun. This book will take you from complete novice to a published app developer, and covers every step in between. You’ll learn the basics of iOS application development by taking a guided tour through the Xcode software and Swift programming language, before putting that knowledge to use by building your first app called “Snippets.” Over the course of the book, you will continue to explore the many facets of iOS development in Xcode by adding new features to your app, integrating gestures and sensors, and even creating an Apple Watch companion app. You’ll also learn how to use the debugging tools, write unit tests, and optimize and distribute your app. By the time you make it to the end of this book, you will have successfully built and published your first iOS application.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Learning Xcode 8
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we sprinted through the Swift programming language and learned all of the basics we need to start creating our own iOS and watchOS applications. First we took a look at Xcode playgrounds, before we jumped into Swift itself, where we covered the basic data types, optional values, collections, control flow, and functions. Once we had the basics down we took a look at classes, and the related structs and enums. We finished by getting an overview of some common and powerful Swift features such as closures, protocols, extensions, and error handling.

In the next chapter, we take one of our final steps toward being able to create our first app: understanding how to use storyboards, size classes, and auto layout. This is where we'll learn all about the view portion of MVC. We'll be creating layouts, understanding how things adjust on different screen sizes, and creating future-proof interfaces that can adapt for devices that don't exist yet!