June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
590 pages
19h 31m
English
Content preview from iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition
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Writing the RandomPossessions Tool
Before you dive into the UIKit, the set of libraries for creating iOS applications, you’re going to write a command line tool that will let you focus on the Objective-C language. Open Xcode and select → → . In the lefthand table in the Mac OS X section, click Application and then select Command Line Tool from the upper panel, as shown in Figure 2.3. Click the Next button.
Figure 2.3 Creating a command line tool

On the next panel, name the product RandomPossessions and choose Foundation as its type (Figure 2.4). Click Next, and you will be prompted to save the project. Save it some place ...
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