Chapter 5
Setting Up to Develop iOS Apps
In This Chapter
Enrolling your Apple ID in the iOS Developer Program
Getting Xcode from the iOS Dev Center
Navigating Xcode and using its features
Practicing with a sample application
Debugging an application in Xcode
iOS applications are almost exclusively developed in Objective-C. At one time, you could install the iOS framework along with an Objective-C compiler and build iOS apps the old-fashioned way — with a text editor and the command line. Nowadays, most folks like to make their lives a little easier, so they use an integrated development environment (IDE) for their iOS development. The IDE for iOS development is Xcode.
In this chapter, I show you how to officially become an iOS developer so you can get access to Xcode. I then show you how to install Xcode and how to verify whether you installed it correctly. Then I show you how to build a simple application and how to import and run the source code of the Tic-Tac-Toe application. ...
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