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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

Chapter 6. Building Your First iOS App

For the last five chapters, we've been covering many different aspects of iOS development. We've learned how to navigate Xcode, we've explored the basics of Swift 3, and we've practiced creating storyboards for apps. We've even looked at responsible ways to manage a project with source control. There's not much left to procrastinate about: it's time to make our first app.

We've got all the skills we need to build out the model, views, and controllers of a real iOS application. Now, we're going to use all of these skills together to create a simple note-making application called Snippets. Let's break it down. In this chapter we're going to:

  • Breakdown an app idea into a feature list

  • Create a plan for app development

  • Develop model code for the application

  • Lay out the app in a storyboard

  • Build and connect our view controllers

  • Deploy the app to our devices

That's a lot of ground to cover! However, you'll notice that most of these things we've done already. As we...