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iOS and OS X Development

Fritz Anderson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Anderson, Fritz.
Xcode 6 start to finish : iOS and OS X development / Fritz Anderson.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-13-405277-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Mac OS. 2. iOS (Electronic resource) 3. Macintosh (Computer)Programming.
4. iPhone (Smartphone)Programming. 5. Application softwareDevelopment.
I. Title.
QA76.774.M33A534 2015
005.446dc23 2015004190

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ISBN-13: 978-0-13-405277-9
ISBN-10: 0-13-405277-3

Text printed in the United States on recycled paper at Edwards Brothers Malloy in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
First printing, June 2015

Editor-in-Chief
Mark L. Taub

Senior Acquisitions Editor
Trina MacDonald

Senior Development Editor
Chris Zahn

Managing Editor
John Fuller

Full-Service Production Manager
Julie B. Nahil

Copy Editor
Stephanie Geels

Indexer
Ted Laux

Proofreader
Kathleen Allain

Technical Reviewers
Duncan Champney
Chuck Ross
Dan Wood

Editorial Assistant
Olivia Basegio

Cover Designer
Chuti Prasertsith

Compositor
Lori Hughes

For the Honorable Betty Shelton Cole,
a tough old broad

Only part of the effort that went into putting Xcode 6 Start to Finish into your hands was spent at a text editor. I am indebted to those without whom this book could not have been made. Many of them appear in the formal production credits; they deserve better-than-formal thanks.

Trina MacDonald went through enormous pains to turn a new edition around quickly in the face of the many changes in Xcode. This was not a sure thing; she made sure it happened. Thank you.

Lori Hughes stepped in with skill and good humor to give us a head start in getting the manuscript ready to go on a tight schedule. Julie Nahil, the production manager, stepped in early to make this possible, in addition to her job-title work of turning the manuscript I submitted into the book Id hoped for.

Olivia Basegio made sure the contracts, correspondence, (and advance payments!) all got through. She guided the reviewers through their work while the book was still in unassembled pieces on the ground.

The reviewers, Chris Zahn, Gene Backlin, and Josh Day, saved me much embarrassment, and made this a much better work than it started. Errors remain. Some are intentional, some not; they are all my own.

Stephanie Geels, the copy editor, made the prosecution of typos, grammar, and which instance of a particular word gets which typeface, more fun than youd think. In fact, fun.

A full-time day job is not an authors best friend (except for the part about paying the rent). Alan Takaoka, my boss in the Web Services department of IT Services, The University of Chicago, got me three- and four-day weekends while I wrote. I promised to keep all my meetings and deadlines while I worked on the book, but somehow none of them fell on a Monday or Friday. Cornelia Bailey, who manages most of my projects, kept rescheduling them.

Bess and Kate bore more than daughters should of my doubts and frustrations, and were simply confident that I would do finewhich was all they needed to do.

Fritz Anderson has been writing software, books, and articles for Apple platforms since 1984. This is his fifth book.

He has worked for research and development firms, consulting practices, and freelance. He was admitted to the Indiana bar, but thought better of it. He is now a senior iOS developer for the Web Services department at The University of Chicago. He has two daughters.

Welcome to Xcode 6 Start to Finish! This book will show you how to use Apples integrated development environment to make great products with the least effort.