Announcing New Course: Xcode Tips and Tricks!

Do you find working with Xcode's sprawling interface to be a real productivity drain?

Help is on the way! Go beyond the basics of developing in Xcode and become an efficient Xcode guru in our new Xcode Tips and Tricks course!

Keep reading to hear more about it from course instructor Jessy Catterwaul:

Why should I take your Xcode Tips and Tricks course?

"If you’re developing iOS apps, it’s likely that you’re spending a ton of time in Xcode. Getting to know it as best as you can is an investment that pays off every time you’re working on a project. It saves you time, and makes the development experience more enjoyable.

It’s important to get to a point where you feel like the IDE is working with you, instead of being in your way. This course will help you along that path."

How can this course help with a common pain point in iOS development?

"Xcode 12 introduced a new system for how tabs work, and it can be absolutely confounding at first! But once you get to know exactly what all the editor layout options are, you’ll find yourself with a versatile toolset that you can take advantage of for your various programming tasks.

Learning how to access those options quickly is one of the many productivity tips I cover."

Can you please share a cool Xcode tip with us?

"Xcode 12 is fully embracing the Swift Package Manager for sharing SwiftUI library items. For example, let’s say you’ve written an extension that makes any type of view “pulchritudinous”. Now, you can make it discoverable as a library effect, by using this method within any type that conforms to LibraryContentProvider:

@LibraryContentBuilder
                          
  func modifiers(base: View) -> [LibraryItem] {
                          
    LibraryItem(
                          
    title: "Pulchritudinous",
                          
    category: .effect
                          
  )
                          
}

Put that code into a package on GitHub, and you’ll be able to use it from the library UI, in all your projects!"

Is there anything else we should know about your Xcode Tips and Tricks course?

"I designed the episodes of this course to be quickly and easily viewable as references, for very specific topics.

For this kind of material, which is so tied to the visual aspects of an IDE, I find short video clips to be the best way to get up to speed (or to get back to speed, if I forget something). I recommend that you do the same—hopefully this course will be inspirational for making your own recorded notes-to-self!"

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Jessy's Xcode Tips and Tricks course is available for subscribers now!

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Announcing New Course: Xcode Tips and Tricks!