From the course: iOS 14 Development Essential Training

Navigate the Xcode interface

From the course: iOS 14 Development Essential Training

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Navigate the Xcode interface

- [Tutor] As Xcode can be a little bit overwhelming for new users, let's take a quick tour of the Xcode interface. And what we're going to do is just focus on the essential tools that you need to build your first app. At the top of the screen of Xcode, we have a toolbar. A toolbar has buttons on the left and on the right for toggling those areas of the screen. We'll be using those in the course to get more space for writing code. The play button runs your application on the chosen platform, which you can choose over here. So it says iPod touch seventh generation. If I click right there, I can choose a simulator to run on, a connected device or if I just want to build the application and not run it, I can choose the build option. This text here displays information about the last or currently running build. This plus button opens up the library, which we'll look at later in the course. And then we have a source control button for code review and here's another button for hiding that right side of the screen. The left area that we see right here is called the navigator. And there are several different navigators here for things like viewing files, searching through files, checking mornings, et cetera. For the most part in this course we're going to be sticking with the project navigator which is the folder icon all the way on the left. Single clicking files in here, we'll show them in the editor which is the main working area of Xcode. When using SwiftUI the editor is split into two different views. One where you write your code on the left and the other where you can see a preview of your application on the right. We'll take a look at how this works later on. So that is a brief tour of the Xcode interface and of course there are more features, but for this course, we're just going to stick with the basics. And to review we have the toolbar at the top, options to hide the left and right sides of the screen, the navigator on the left which you usually want to stick with the project navigator which is the left-most icon and then the main working area in the center of the screen, which is called the editor.

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