Teach Yourself iOS 8 in 24 Hours was written with the latest version of Xcode, and the project files were prepared with the latest beta. Unfortunately, Swift is evolving quickly. There will likely be small issues that occur in the…
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Teach Yourself iOS 8 in 24 Hours was written with the latest version of Xcode, and the project files were prepared with the latest beta. Unfortunately, Swift is evolving quickly. There will likely be small issues that occur in the…
Having trouble with the Hour 1 Welcome project on the iPhone? Please download the updated tutorial archive – posted Jan 25, 2014. An error with the project file settings prevented the original release from running correctly.
In the latest Xcode releases you will see an error regarding a missing root View Controller when running the HelloXcode application. To satisfy the requirement, simply add this line to the code provided: self.window.rootViewController=[UIViewController new];
Table 14.1 is referenced at the end of page 452, but isn’t included in the book. The missing table is reproduced here:
Sick of typing a @synthesize line for every property? Install Xcode 4.4 (now available on the Mac App Store) and let Xcode do it for you!
If you install new versions of Xcode from the App Store, you’ll notice that they no longer install under a “/Developer” directory. Xcode now lives under the main Applications directory. The Developer directory is still present, but it’s just located…
In Xcode 4.3 and later, Apple has changed what happens when you add a navigation controller to your project. Instead of giving you a blank UIViewController (labeled “Root View Controller”) to do with as you please, it links you to…
In the most recent versions of Xcode (and future versions), classes such as UIViewController are not available as separate selections when adding a new class to your project. Instead, choose to create a new Objective-C class, then, on the second…
In the process of trying to consolidate examples for this latest edition, I introduced a bug into the Hour 14 “FlowerColorTable” project. To display the flower images in this tutorial, I used the name of the flower as the name…
In the MediaPlayground tutorial, the image picker MUST be presented in a popover on the iPad. This was overlooked in the text, but can be easily implemented using the techniques discussed in Hour 11: Introducing Multiple Scenes and Popovers. To…