iOS App Development For Dummies

Chapter 7

Working with the Source Editor

In This Chapter

Using the Standard source editor to add code

Fixing syntax errors as you code

Getting the help you need from the documentation and other forms of help

Searching and finding symbols

You may be chomping at the bit to write code, but that's exactly what you've been doing ever since Chapter 2. (Chapter 1 was an introductory overview, as you may recall.) You've started building a storyboard for your app's interface — that was writing code just as much as typing print "Hello World" is. You've configured your project's settings with the graphical user interface tools of Xcode — that, too, is writing code.

But typing code into an editor is still a major part of the developer's work, and in this chapter, you'll look at the source code editing features of Xcode.

In this chapter, I tell you how to navigate the files in your project using the Jump bar and the navigators, as well as how to work with the source editor to enter code. And for when you are confused, or simply just curious, I explain how to access the documentation and Xcode’s ...