Chapter 7

More About Xcode

Mac and iOS programmers spend most of their time writing code inside Xcode. Xcode is an excellent tool with a lot of wonderful features, not all of which are obvious. When you’re going to be living inside a powerful tool for a long time, you’ll want to learn as much about it as you can. In this chapter, we’ll introduce you to some Xcode tips and tricks that are useful when you’re writing and navigating your code and locating information you need. We’ll also touch on some ways Xcode can help you debug your code.

Xcode is a huge application, and it is extremely customizable, sometimes ridiculously so. (Did we mention that it’s huge?) Entire books can be (and have been) written about just Xcode, so we’ll stick to the ...

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