Introduction

This book is an intermediate-level introduction to Xcode 4, Apple’s integrated development environment. It assumes you have some development experience and are familiar with Objective-C and the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch APIs. It won’t teach you how to write code or much at all about the frameworks needed to develop OS X and iOS applications. There are other books for that. This one is strictly focused on how to use Xcode itself, whatever your development endeavors.

Of course, since Xcode is most often used with the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch APIs and Objective-C, there are basic introductions to concepts and a few code samples sprinkled here and there to illustrate various points. In these cases, you will be pointed to the documentation that ...

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