Chapter 1
Playing with Xcode 8

In this chapter, you’ll get a taste of what iOS development is like. You’ll set up the tools for creating iOS apps, flex your fingers by playing around with some code, and learn how to find your way in the development environment.

You’ll start by simply playing around, and by the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to ship an app.

There is one must-have tool for iOS development: Xcode. This integrated development environment (IDE) will be where we do nearly all our work of developing, testing, and unleashing iOS apps. Xcode lets us build our apps, run them, debug them, and submit them to the App Store. There’s very little in this book that won’t involve working in Xcode.