iPad Application Development For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Working within the Utility Area

The Utility area consists of the Inspector and Library panes and their corresponding Inspector and Library selector bars. The idea is to use the Inspector pane to view and access Quick Help and other inspectors, and to scour the Library pane for ready-made resources you want to use in your project. You’ll be using both the Inspector and Library panes in this chapter.

Inspector and Quick Help pane

You use the Inspector selector (shown in Figure 5-4) to toggle on the particular inspector you want to use. (Xcode makes the decision-making process a bit easier by having your choice of Navigator or Content editor predetermine which inspectors in fact show up in the Inspector selector.)

Figure 5-4: The Inspector selector.

Utility area inspectors perform a variety of tasks. Following is a list of important inspectors and what you use them for.

File inspector (first button): Lets you view and manage file metadata such as its name, type, and path.

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