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Molly K. Maskrey, App Development Recipes for iOS and watchOS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1820-4_8

8. Targets and Schemes

Molly K. Maskrey

(1)Parker, Colorado, USA

In Xcode we create and work with projects that are collections of stuff. A project contains all the files, resources, and other information such as info.plist or build settings to create products. The project also contains the relationships between those elements; for example, source files that may belong to one product but not to others. A target specifies the product to be built and how we are going to create it; that is, the instructions for building that target. Each target only builds one product. You can either have multiple targets included when you first create ...

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