Editing Property Lists

When you started the Passer Rating iPhone app, the first thing Xcode showed was the Target editor for the application. The third tab, Info, is a specialization of the Property List editor for Info.plist, which contains a dictionary describing to the OS how the application is to be presented. Each line of the top section represents one key-value pair at the top level of the dictionary; the Info editor refines the experience by wrapping some of the top-level keys (for such as document and data types) into distinct lists of convenient graphical editors. See Figure 24.1.

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Figure 24.1 As soon as an application project is created, ...

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