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Author Biography
Fritz Anderson has been writing software, books, and articles for the Macintosh since 1984. He has worked for research and development firms, consulting practices, and freelanced. He has been admitted to the Indiana bar but thought better of it. He now lives in Chicago, where he works for a large university.
Table of Contents
| Introduction1 | |
| The Life Cycle of a Mac OS X Application | |
| Kicking the Tires | p. 11 |
| Simple Workflow and Passive Debugging | p. 19 |
| Simple Active Debugging | p. 29 |
| Compilation: The Basics | p. 39 |
| Starting a Cocoa Application | p. 47 |
| A Cocoa Application: Views | p. 63 |
| A Cocoa Application: Controllers | p. 75 |
| Version Control | p. 93 |
| Property Lists | p. 117 |
| Libraries and Dependent Targets | p. 141 |
| File Packages and Bundles | p. 153 |
| Unit Testing | p. 167 |
| Creating a Custom View | p. 181 |
| Dynamic Libraries and Frameworks | p. 203 |
| Documentation in Xcode | p. 221 |
| Using the Data Modeling Tools | p. 243 |
| Cross-Development | p. 267 |
| Spotlight (or, How to Build a Plug-in) | p. 281 |
| Finishing Touches | p. 301 |
| Xcode Tasks | |
| Navigating an Xcode Project | p. 331 |
| Xcode for make Veterans | p. 353 |
| More About Debugging | p. 373 |
| Xcode and Speed | p. 395 |
| A Legacy Project | p. 403 |
| Shark and the CHUD Tools | p. 421 |
| Instruments | p. 437 |
| Closing Snippets | p. 461 |
| Appendices | |
| Some Build Variables | p. 475 |
| Project and Target Templates | p. 485 |
| Other Resources | p. 501 |
| Index | p. 507 |
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Introduction IntroductionIN THIS INTRODUCTIONWhat Xcode IsWhat's New in Xcode 3Obtaining XcodeInstalling XcodeFrom the moment it first published Mac OS X, Apple, Inc., has made a complete suite of application development tools available to every user of the Macintosh. Since Mac OS X version 10.3, those tools have been led by Xcode, the integrated development environment Apple's own engineers use to develop system software and applications such as Safari, iTunes, Mail, and iChat. If you own a Mac, these same tools are in your hands today. What's New in Xcode 3In October 2007, with the introduction of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Apple introduced version 3 of the Xcode developer tools suite. Among the changes wereExtensive improvements to the Xcode integrated development environment (IDE), includingSupport for Objective-C 2.0, the first major revision to the language, with commands for converting existing code to the new language.Improved syntax coloring, now including distinctive colors for symbols like instance variables and method names.Code Focus, a ribbon beside the editor text that lets you see how blocks of code are organized, and allows you to fold long blocks down to the height of a single line.The projectwide Find command now works through the Spotlight text-searching engine, yielding better results faster.A debugger bar, offering simple debugging controls in any editor window.Datatips, allowing you to inspect the values of program variables during debugging, just by hovering the cursor over them in the code.A mini-debugger, injected into the programs you run, permitting debugging during mouse-down events and other "volatile" situations.Automatic access to the debugger whenever a program you run from Xcode crashes.Improved compile-time error reporting, interleaving compiler messages with the code they relate to.Automated refactoring, helping you rename classes, methods, and functions, shift methods from class to class, and even create new super classes, in an Objective-C project.Much improved support for source code management tools such as Subversion, CVS, and Perforce.Much improved support for using UNIX scripting languages to create and edit text.The Organizer, a window to hold references to frequently used files and projects.Among the command-line tools, the new xed tool enables you to open text files in Xcode, when a shell script or tool demands an interactive editor.A major upgrade to the documentation system, using RSS feeds for live updates, and permitting developers to add their own documentation to the system.A Research Assistant window that documents API symbols and build variables in real time, as they are selected.A completely revamped Interface Builder, with better tools for crafting nonvisual parts of the human interface, such as controller objects. Integration between IB and Xcode is even tighter than before.A new tool, Instruments, for profiling the resource usage (memory, I/O, graphics, threading) of a program, in real time, on a timeline so that you can see how each element of the performance picture relates to all the others.Xcode 3 is a ground-up rebuild of the Mac OS X developer tools, and it has been well worth the wait. Obtaining XcodeIf you have an installation DVD for Mac OS X 10.5 or a new Mac on which Leopard has come installed, you already have Xcode. On the DVD, an installation package can be found in the Xcode Tools folder inside the Optional I
