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Set up your new Mac
These simple steps will get you started. Learn how to turn on your Mac, use the setup assistant, and check for software updates.
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Switching from Windows?
Mac ease of use is legendary. If you're coming from Windows, you can learn how to click, copy, close, and more in no time.
Get tips for Windows switchersBring your files and folders
Use Migration Assistant to copy all of your documents, apps, and settings to your new Mac from another Mac or Windows PC.
Navigate with gestures
Make your Mac do amazing things with a swipe, a tap, and a click. Navigating your Mac is easy with gestures for your trackpad, Force Touch trackpad, and mouse.
Use multi-touch gesturesUse keyboard shortcuts
Sometimes a quick press of the keys is faster than pointing and clicking. Save time with these keyboard shortcuts.
Learn handy shortcutsPersonalize your display
Quickly start a screen saver or put your display to sleep with hot corner shortcuts. You can also secure your Mac by requiring a password after the screen saver starts.
Set up screen saverCreate wonderful work with your Mac
Productivity is fun, easy, and collaborative with these powerful apps that come built into your Mac.
Pick up where you left off with Continuity
Start an email on your iPhone, and finish it on your Mac. Copy text on your Mac, and paste it on your iPad. Use your iPhone as an Instant Hotspot. You can even unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch. Continuity makes it all easy.
Stay connected with ContinuityUse Messages to keep up the conversation
You can send and receive iMessages and text messages on your Mac, just like on your iPhone. Learn how to set up Messages and keep chatting.
Use Messages with your MacYour photos, organized and perfected
The Photos app and iCloud Photo Library give you a beautiful way to organize and view your photos on all your Apple devices. You can also share and edit your photos with powerful, intuitive tools.
Use Photos on your MacAccess your documents anywhere
When you store documents in iCloud Drive, you can open them on all your Apple devices and on iCloud.com. And your edits stay up to date everywhere.
Set up iCloud Drive on your MacLearn more
Get Mac Support, learn about the operating system that makes your Mac run, and brush up on the basics.
Jump Right In
Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift) is the perfect starting point for learning to create apps that run on iPhone and iPad. View this set of incremental lessons as a guided introduction to building your first app—including the tools, major concepts, and best practices that will ease your path.
Each lesson contains a tutorial and the conceptual information you need to complete it. The lessons build on each other, walking you through a step-by-step process of creating a simple, real-world iOS app.
As you make your way through the lessons and build the app, you’ll learn about concepts in iOS app development, gain a deeper understanding of the Swift programming language, and familiarize yourself with the many valuable features of Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE).
Prerequisites
In these lessons, it is assumed that you are familiar with the Swift programming language. You do not need to be a Swift master to complete the lessons, but you will get more out of the lessons if you can comfortably read and understand Swift code.
If you are not yet comfortable with Swift, complete the Learn to Code exercises in the Swift Playgrounds app. Alternatively, you can work through A Swift Tour from The Swift Programming Language (Swift 3). Both give you a solid foundation in the Swift programming language.
About the Lessons
In these lessons, you’ll be building a simple meal-tracking app called FoodTracker. This app shows a list of meals, including a meal name, rating, and photo. A user can add, remove, or edit a meal. To add a new meal or edit an existing one, users navigate to a different screen where they can specify a name, rating, and photo for a particular meal.
The lessons are each accompanied by an Xcode project file that shows an example of how your code and interface should look at the end of the lesson. After you go through a lesson, you can download the project and check your work against it.
If you need to refer to the concepts you’ve learned throughout the lessons, use the glossary to refresh your memory. Glossary terms are linked throughout the lessons.
Get the Tools
To develop iOS apps using the latest technologies described in these lessons, you need a Mac computer (macOS 10.11.5 or later) running the latest version of Xcode. Xcode includes all the features you need to design, develop, and debug an app. Xcode also contains the iOS SDK, which extends Xcode to include the tools, compilers, and frameworks you need specifically for iOS development.
Download the latest version of Xcode on your Mac free from the App Store.
To download the latest version of Xcode
Learning To Write Apps For Mac Free
- Open the App Store app on your Mac (by default it’s in the Dock).
- In the search field in the top-right corner, type
Xcode
and press the Return key.The Xcode app shows up as the first search result. - Click Get and then click Install App.
- Enter your Apple ID and password when prompted.Xcode is downloaded into your
/Applications
directory.
Important
Apps For My Mac
The lessons were written using Xcode 8.1, iOS SDK 10, and Swift 3. Try to use these versions while working on the tutorials. If you are using a different version, your screen may look different than what is shown in the screenshots. You may also need to make changes to your code to get it to compile.
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