Learn Swift by Building Applications

Adding items to the storyboard

Almost every app needs to present textual information. To do so, we need a label or a TextView to render the content in the app. Follow these steps to add a simple label on the screen:

1. Open the Utilities pane (alt + cmd + 0).
2. Activate the Object Library tab. Simply click on the Object Library button shown here: 

3. Click on the filter field at the bottom:

4. Type lab. The list of components will filter.
5. You should see just a single component. In this case, the Label view:

6. Start dragging the label to the storyboard ...