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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

Setting up Git in Xcode


Now that we have some theory under our belts, let's put it to good use. In this section, we are going to learn several ways to get an Xcode project set up with version control. Let's launch Xcode and get to work!

Creating a local repository

To begin, create a new project in Xcode. Choose a Single View Application, and give it any name you like. Make sure your settings look like mine do in Figure 5.5:

Figure 5.5: Our project settings

Once that's done, click Next, and choose a folder to save your project. Before you finish creating your project though, take notice of the checkbox at the bottom of the dialog box (see Figure 5.6):

Figure 5.6: The Git setup checkbox on a new project

You want to make sure you check the box so that Xcode will automatically configure the project folder that it creates as a Git repository. Now, you can click Create and enter your new project.

Note

If you run into any issues with Git from this point on, you should double check that you installed the...