Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
grammers would agree that the absence of such a feature in the iOS environment
makes it preferable for beginners to develop apps for Android.
Xcode
The development environment for iOS SDK is called Xcode (now distributed in its
Version 4) and like iOS and OS X, it is written in objective-C.
Xcode contains all the necessary development tools made by Apple to build applic-
ations for OS X and iOS: a source code editor and a user interface editor.
Together with the Cocoa framework, it provides a very productive and easy-to-use
development environment, powerful enough to develop the same kind of tools used
by Apple to produce iOS.
For example, as you write code, Xcode finds mistakes in syntax and logic, highlights
them, and also suggests fixes.
Workflow in the IDE is performed in a single window, so that all relevant info is avail-
able at once.
The UI editor, called the Interface Builder, permits specifying the details of the user
interface and its connections to the logic and data of the app in a very intuitive graph-
ical environment, and to work very closely with the source code editor to get from
design to implementation as quickly as possible.
Using Xcode
To create a new project with Xcode, follow the given steps:
1. Navigate to
File
|
New Project
. A dialog will appear, as shown in the follow-
ing screenshot:
