Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac® and iOS in 24 Hours

Hour 2. Creating a Simple App

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Choosing a template

• Creating the app

• Deciding where to make changes

Starting to Build an App

Whether you are starting out to build an iOS app or a Mac App, there is one thing you will not do: start from scratch. With Xcode, the welcome screen shown in Figure 2.1 gives you choices, such as reopening recent projects that you have been working on, learning about Xcode, connecting to a source code repository such as Git, or going to developer.apple.com to get the motherload of documentation and help. You are not starting from scratch.

Figure 2.1 Xcode helps you start with your project.

Note

At the bottom of this window, a checkbox lets you opt to bypass it in the future. If ...