Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Laying Out the User Interface

Select Main.storyboard from the project navigator. The iOS single view application template is much simpler than the Cocoa storyboard you used in the previous chapter. Your storyboard currently contains only a single, empty view controller.

Add a button to your view controller. In the object library (at the bottom of the utilities pane), search for “button.” Drag a Button onto your view controller canvas and drop it in the top-right corner where it will snap into place against the dashed blue guidelines. Finally, change the title of the button to “Insert” in the attributes inspector. The attributes inspector is one tab of the utilities pane, and it allows you to configure properties of views. Your ...