Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 4: Exploring the iOS SDK

© Molly K. Maskrey 2017

Molly K. Maskrey, Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 4, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3072-5_2

2. Writing Your First App

Molly K. Maskrey¹ 

(1)Parker, Colorado, USA

I want to get you started right away with a feel for what this is all about and to motivate your continued progress toward being a great developer, so let’s get to it and do something with your iPhone (see Figure 2-1). In this chapter, using Xcode, let’s create a small iOS application that will display “Hello, World!” on the screen. You’ll look at what’s involved in creating the project in Xcode , work through the specifics of using Xcode’s Interface Builder to design your application’s user interface, and then execute your application on the iOS simulator ...