From the course: Cocoa with Swift 3 Essential Training

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts.

Introduction to Xcode

Introduction to Xcode

- [Instructor] Let's talk about the Xcode interface and how it's organized. At the top of the screen you have the toolbar. Toolbar has information about your previous build or your current built or your currently running build. It has buttons for running and stopping an application. Buttons for choosing the active scheme including which executable you want to run when you hit the run button. For now we only have one project so it's mostly going to be unnecessary to change this. On the right side of the toolbar we can change the editor. The editor is the center area of Xcode. We can choose to use the standard editor which is the default setting on the left which shows one area for the editor. We could also use the assistant editor which splits the editor into two different areas. That way you can work on, for example, a user interface on one side and code on the other side at the same time. The assistant editor has a fly out menu at the bottom-right corner where you can click that and…

Contents