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Xcode 6 Essentials

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Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Errata Piracy Questions

1. Introduction to Xcode

Requirements and installing Xcode Features of Xcode What's new in Xcode 6?

Interactive coding using Playgrounds Mac OS X storyboards Live design and responsive UI Visual debugging Improved debugger

Summary

2. Tour of Xcode

Starting Xcode Creating a new project

Selecting the project type Setting the project options Setting the project properties

Xcode overview

The project section The editor and assistant editor sections

Source code editors The assistant editor

The utility/inspector section

The Apple development languages

Swift

Summary

3. Playgrounds

Introduction Swift Playgrounds

The UI

Learning Swift

Console output printing Working with variables

Variable types Declaring variables What are Int, Double, and Float variables Adding different types Booleans Arrays and dictionaries

Array objects

Initializing array objects Appending values Removing values Inserting values Iterating values Enumerating values

Dictionary objects

Adding values Replacing values Removing Values Iterating values

Tuples

Accessing the members of a tuple Named access to tuple members

Strings

Appending strings Formatting strings

Any and AnyObject

Control flows and code execution

The if statement The if..else statement The if..elseif..else statement The ternary operator For loops

The for-increment loop The for-in loop Using for with strings Using for with numeric ranges Stepped ranges

The While loop The switch condition

Functions

Return values

The no-return value function The single-return value function The multiple-return value function

Parameters

The single parameter function The multiple parameter function Named parameters Shorthand external parameter names Optional parameters with default values Passing multiple parameters

Using closures

Objects

Classes

Properties

Enumerations

Extensions – extending the classes

Operator overloading

The prefix operator The postfix operator The infix operator

Summary

4. Interface Builder

Introducing Interface Builder

Creating a basic interface

Elements on the view

Adaptive UI Adding scenes Navigating between View Controllers Building a simple application

Adding items to Table View Different elements for different orientations and dimensions Adding the code Autolayout Subclassing Quick help Managing connections Adding gesture recognizers

Segues and connections

Summary

5. Custom Controls

An introduction to custom controls The basics

Creating a class Properties Changing properties from the inspector Enhancing custom controls

Adding some text

Frameworks

Creating a framework Debugging custom controls

Summary

6. Debugging

Breakpoints

Listing all the breakpoints Navigating The console Understanding the debug information Visualizing variables with the Quick Look functionality

Using images with quick view

Debugging the view hierarchy Introducing debug gauges

Summary

7. Building and Running

Simulator

Choosing the device

Preparing for distribution

Configuring the project settings

The Identity section The Deployment Info section Application icons and launch images Linked frameworks and libraries

The Capabilities tab The Info tab The Build tabs The Targets tab

Setting project-wide properties

Code signing Organizer

Summary

A. Conditional Execution and Interface Designing

More?.Swift! Differences between iOS 7.x and 8.x SDK

Location services Conditional execution

Displaying alerts Showing an alert with ActionController Showing ActionSheet with AlertController

Designing in Interface Builder Adaptive UI

Summary

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