Xcode 6 Start to Finish: iOS and OS X Development

by Fritz Anderson

Use Xcode 6 to Craft Outstanding iOS and OS X Apps! Xcode 6 Start to Finish will help you use Apple’s Xcode 6 tools to improve productivity, write great code, and leverage the newest iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite features, including Apple’s new Swift programming language. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience developing for Apple platforms, and helping others do so, Fritz Anderson presents a complete best-practice workflow that reflects Xcode’s latest innovations. Through three full, sample projects, you’ll learn to integrate testing, source control, and other key skills into a high-efficiency process that works. And all sample code has been completely written in Swift, with figures and descriptions that reflect Xcode’s radically new interface. This is the only Xcode 6 book focused on deep mastery of the tools you’ll be living with every day. Anderson reveals better ways to storyboard, instrument, build, and compile code, and helps you apply new features, ranging from Interface Builder Live Rendering to View Debugging and XCTest Performance Testing. By the time you’re finished, you’ll have all the Xcode 6 skills you need in order to develop truly exceptional software. Coverage includes Register your book at informit.com/register for access to this title’s downloadable code.

616 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2015

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Talk about timely reading. I finished this book just as Xcode 7 was released. Though I knew that was going to be happening I thought there were things that I would find useful in this and that turned out to be true.

Books like this tend to become dated very quickly but if you and the subject matter are in the right place at the right time then it can be useful. Or it can be a complete waste of time since a lot of these types of books are just plain awful. This one isn't awful though it also isn't great. The author tries tow all through exercises with the mistakes built in so you'll make the mistakes when he wants you to so you can learn the point he want to make at what he judges the right time. The problem is that people tend to make mistakes in addition to his and so one can never be quite sure if the mistake is his or not.

Still for a book on Xcode it is better than any other I've seen though you might want to wait for the one on Xode 7 now...