So You Want To Be an iOS Developer

By Kent Franks

"So you want to be an iOS Developer" is a starting point for anyone wanting to become iOS developer. It walks you through all the steps needed to get up and running in developing your own apps. Simple and straight forward explanations with hundreds of screen shots and code snippets. We start by signing up with Apple downloading and then learning Xcode, the tool used to develop iOS apps. Next, you will learn your way around Storyboards, the easy way to layout the UI of your app with little to no code. Continue on to start writing your own app. And finally, a bonus chapter on passing data around the right way.

Everything you need to start developing your own app today.

Written by the founder of TheAppCodeBlog, dedicated to teaching people how to develop apps since 2011.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kent Franks
• Release date: Nov 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310916663

Kent Franks

Kent Franks is the founder of TheAppCodeBlog. Founded in 2011, TheAppCodeBlog is dedicated to teaching others how to develop iOS apps. Kent has been programming since the late 1990's, utilizing a number of different languages and technologies. His current passion is in iOS. When not sitting at a computer staring at code, Kent can be found watching his kids in one of their sporting activities or working on some kind of project around the house.

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So you want to be an iOS Developer

Copyright 2014 Kent Franks

Published by Kent Franks at Smashwords

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Become an iOS Developer

Chapter 2 - Getting to know Xcode

Chapter 3 - Getting to know Storyboard

Chapter 4 - Storyboard Continued - Expanding on what we’ve done so far

Chapter 5 - Storyboard and Beyond

A Bonus Chapter - Protocol - Delegate

About the Author

Connect with me

Acknowledgements

Thank you so much to my lovely wife Kate and my kids Hannah and Noah for putting up with my long hours at the computer.

Chapter 1

Become an iOS Developer

1.) Register as an Apple Developer. To do this go to https://developer.apple.com/register/index.action. From here you will either have to sign in with an existing Apple ID or create a new one. For our purposes I am going to assume you have already created an Apple ID. Select Sign In

2.) Enter your existing Apple ID.

3.) After signing in you will be presented with the Developers resources screen.

From here you have access to the developer forums, development videos and a number of technical resources.

4.) Click on Your Account to view details of your account.

Scroll down to view Membership options.

To join one of these programs you will have to pay money. The iOS Developer Program is $99 / year. The good news is you don’t need to join right now, once you have an app that you want to start testing on a device and you look to put into the app store, then you’ll need to join.

5.) Select Professional Profile on the left and fill in the information. This isn’t required but doesn’t hurt either.

6.) You can select Programs & Add-on, but there’s nothing to see here until you actually join and become a paying member.

7.) Let’s go back to the home page by clicking the little house in the upper left. And then click on iOS. This will take you to the iOS Dev Center page.

Find the button that says Download Xcode 6 and click it. (This may be another version if you are seeing this at some point in the future)

Now you see the Xcode download screen.

Click Download Xcode 6.0.1

You’ll see a progress bar open up on the bottom of the page indicating that the download has started.

8.) At this point you might as well go to bed or something because the download is over 2 GB and will take a number of hours.

9.) Once the download is complete you will find the xcode_6.dmg file in your downloads folder.

10.) Double click on the file. You will see a window that says it’s verifying.

11.) After that completes you get a screen telling you to drag Xcode into your Applications folder.

12.) Drag Xcode