iOS App Development-Interface Designing Part 4

Summary

For iOS application, programming interface designing is an important step and there are many tools to help in this regard, but the contribution of Xcode is unbeatable and you will have out-of-box tools and features in the latest version of Xcode 5 like Auto Configuration, Test Navigation, Auto Layout, etc. to ease the life of an iOS developer.

Introduction

In previous three parts, we came across the interface designing for iOS application development process, and learned some basic principles of iOS programming and interface designing. Now, in this post I would like to introduce you its magic part, Xcode, an exclusive iOS and Mac OS programming tool running on OS X Lion and higher versions.  

With Xcode you will find an advance interface that seamlessly integrating latest code editing tools, UI designing assistance using Interface Builder as well as excellent and high quality testing and debugging toolset, some Instruments analysis tools, iOS simulators, latest SDKs, etc. and all within a single window!

Today we all iOS programmers have to deal with lengthy code and bulky documents so we need some sort of automation in our coding practices as well as documentations and their management. In Xcode, you will find Apple LLVM compiler that will underline/highlighting your coding mistakes as well as give suggestive options to ease you coding by such smart ways.

With latest version Xcode 5, you can make your iOS app programming a fun experience for iOS 7 development on OS X Marvericks. With this Xcode 5 you can automatically configure your application to get precious Apple services like iCloud, Game Center or Passbook straight forward within IDE. Moreover, you need only Apple ID to do many task with a single log in like managing your iPad development team, issue certificates, creating provisioning profiles, and do entitlements for you.

With Xcode 5, you can easily create, edit and run plenty of unit test and navigate them successfully. In addition OS X Server can create “bots” to constantly build your app and run Xcode analyzer to do debugging. You can configure Bots to execute on every check-in as well as alerting committers when something going wrong or found broken. This way can get clues about the device specific bugs too.

In Xcode 5, you will find some interface builder support for Auto Layout so you can get free-form canvas to do your next generation iPhone applications development. Moreover, you can get immediate alerts when any constraint is missing or you have mis-configure them, even Interface Builder can fix the problems of layout in favor of you.