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Mastering macOS Programming

You're reading from Mastering macOS Programming Hands-on guide to macOS Sierra Application Development

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461698

Length 626 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

MacOS

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Gregory Casamento

Stuart Grimshaw

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. Hello macOS FREE CHAPTER

2. Basic Swift

3. Checking Out the Power of Xcode

4. MVC and Other Design Patterns

5. Advanced Swift

6. Cocoa Frameworks - The Backbone of Your Apps

7. Creating Views Programmatically

8. Strings and Text

9. Getting More from Interface Builder

10. Drawing on the Strength of Core Graphics

11. Core Animation

12. Handling Errors Gracefully

13. Persistent Storage

14. The Benefits of Core Data

15. Connect to the World - Networking

16. Concurrency and Asynchronous Programming

17. Understanding Xcodes Debugging Tools

18. LLDB and the Command Line

LLDB
Summary

19. Deploying Third - Party Code

20. Wrapping It Up

Chapter 9. Getting More from Interface Builder

This chapter is about making your life with Interface Builder (IB) a little more comfortable. Although it is possible to write a complete app without doing any work in IB, it's fair to say that most projects are completed with at least some help from the editor that Apple likes to claim meets all your user-interface design needs. Sometimes, it even does.

The main challenge with Interface Builder is the sheer amount of information it holds. A storyboard may contain scores of View Controllers, navigation, and tab controllers; views may be nested deep inside a hierarchy of other views, some of which are never even visible, and increasingly, interfaces are built with a large number of separate storyboards.

Maintaining a clear overview of a project can become quite tricky, but there are a number of things we can do to make all of the challenges listed above more manageable, without compromising our design and development flow.

In this chapter, you will...

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Authors (2)

Gregory Casamento

Gregory Casamento

I am a software engineer with 25+ years of experience. I am the maintainer of the GNUstep project. I helped to develop Winamp for the Mac as well as many other highly visible projectsOpen Logic Corporation (my company). I have worked for AMGEN, AOL, Raytheon, Hughes Aircraft and many others.

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Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.

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