Interface Builder

You are using the Single View Application template because it is the simplest template that Xcode offers. Still, this template has a significant amount of magic in that some critical components have already been set up for you. For now, you will just use these components, without attempting to gain a deep understanding of how they work. The rest of the book will be concerned with those details.

In the project navigator, click once on the Main.storyboard file. Xcode will open its graphic-style editor called Interface Builder.

Interface Builder divides the editor area into two sections: the document outline, on the lefthand side, and the canvas, on the right.

This is shown in Figure 1.8. If what you see in your ...

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