#SWIFT FOR MAC OS X HOW TO#
#SWIFT FOR MAC OS X PLUS#

#SWIFT FOR MAC OS X HOW TO#

This book isn’t here to teach you how to design wireframes or conceptualize the applications that you’ll build, but we have to start somewhere. This is OK when your development team is small, such as when it’s just you and maybe one other, because in this case, the goal of wireframing isn’t to create a perfect blueprint for others to implement, but rather to get a solid understanding of how your app needs to work. This means, just like wireframes for real-world products, they differ slightly from the finished product. The wireframes were drawn several weeks before we started writing this book, not once we had a finished app ready. You’ll gain a better understanding of using Swift with Xcode to build applications, and you’ll be better equipped to work on the iOS application once we start on that, in Part III. Just one or two years ago, the setup we’ll accomplish in this chapter would have taken lines upon lines of code.Įven if you’re only interested in learning to use Swift to create iOS applications, we suggest that you work through the chapters (there are only four!) that cover the creation of the OS X application anyway. One of the most striking things about developing for Apple’s platforms using Xcode and Swift is just how much work is done for you. The kind of setup that we’ll be doing in this chapter is fundamental to the creation of most Swift-based applications for OS X and iOS. We’re not going to be doing any coding in this chapter, but it’s still important! We’ll be doing all the setup to make a real, working OS X app, using Xcode, by the end of the chapter (it won’t do much, though!). We’ll be creating an iOS counterpart for Notes later on, in Part III.

#SWIFT FOR MAC OS X PLUS#

Notes is a Mac app that lets you write notes, which contain text plus a number of other attachments: images, locations, videos, sounds, contacts, and more. In this chapter, we’ll start building Notes. Now we’re actually going to build some apps! In Part I, we looked at the Apple Developer Program, the tools you use for developing on Apple platforms, and the fundamentals of the Swift language.

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