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1. Outlets
Outlets connect your interface to the code by letting you refer to the items in your interface by name. Outlets create variables in your code that you can use to work with the UI widgets.
It contains the user interface for the view that displays your application.
The IDE used to code iPhone and iPad (and Mac) applications.
The location in Xcode where your code is organized by class.

2. What does 'Use Storyboard' in Xcode allow you to do?
It informs you (and links you to) any issues in your code.
Building libraries of code that you can share amongst multiple projects.
Master-Detail Application - OpenGL Game - Page Based Application - Single View Application - Tabbed Application - Utility Application - Empty Application
Allows you to use Interface Builder to lay out all of the screens in your program and define the transitions between them.

3. .xib file
Highlight your code - Click on 'Editor->Structure->Re-indent'.
It contains the user interface for the view that displays your application.
Press CTRL+CMD+? over any code.
Master-Detail Application - OpenGL Game - Page Based Application - Single View Application - Tabbed Application - Utility Application - Empty Application

4. Symbol Navigator
The location in Xcode where your code is organized by class.
Outlets connect your interface to the code by letting you refer to the items in your interface by name. Outlets create variables in your code that you can use to work with the UI widgets.
Macs have more memory - Macs are more powerful (better CPU) - Macs have better GPU - You won't get a true performance test on a simulator.
Master-Detail Application - OpenGL Game - Page Based Application - Single View Application - Tabbed Application - Utility Application - Empty Application

5. What is the Issue Navigator in Xcode?
Master-Detail Application - OpenGL Game - Page Based Application - Single View Application - Tabbed Application - Utility Application - Empty Application
Outlets connect your interface to the code by letting you refer to the items in your interface by name. Outlets create variables in your code that you can use to work with the UI widgets.
It allows you to create an application that runs both on the iPhone and iPad devices.
It informs you (and links you to) any issues in your code.

6. Xcode
The tool in Xcode that allows you to build interfaces inside iOS using a GUI.
The IDE used to code iPhone and iPad (and Mac) applications.
Macs have more memory - Macs are more powerful (better CPU) - Macs have better GPU - You won't get a true performance test on a simulator.
It allows you to create an application that runs both on the iPhone and iPad devices.

7. How do you turn on more search options in the search tab of Xcode?

8. Actions
Highlight your code - Click on 'Editor->Structure->Re-indent'.
Actions represent what you want your code to do in response to user interaction with a control or widget.
It allows you to create an application that runs both on the iPhone and iPad devices.
The location in Xcode where your code is organized by class.

9. Some Xcode Project Types
Master-Detail Application - OpenGL Game - Page Based Application - Single View Application - Tabbed Application - Utility Application - Empty Application
It allows you to create an application that runs both on the iPhone and iPad devices.
Press CTRL+CMD+? over any code.
The location in Xcode where your code is organized by class.

10. How do you force Xcode to re-indent your code?

11. Interface Builder?
Macs have more memory - Macs are more powerful (better CPU) - Macs have better GPU - You won't get a true performance test on a simulator.
The IDE used to code iPhone and iPad (and Mac) applications.
Actions represent what you want your code to do in response to user interaction with a control or widget.
The tool in Xcode that allows you to build interfaces inside iOS using a GUI.

12. Why use a real device vs. the simulator for testing your game?

13. What is Cocoa Touch Static Library Template used for?
Outlets connect your interface to the code by letting you refer to the items in your interface by name. Outlets create variables in your code that you can use to work with the UI widgets.
Building libraries of code that you can share amongst multiple projects.
Master-Detail Application - OpenGL Game - Page Based Application - Single View Application - Tabbed Application - Utility Application - Empty Application
It contains the user interface for the view that displays your application.

14. What is the Universal Device Family for?
It allows you to create an application that runs both on the iPhone and iPad devices.
The tool in Xcode that allows you to build interfaces inside iOS using a GUI.
Outlets connect your interface to the code by letting you refer to the items in your interface by name. Outlets create variables in your code that you can use to work with the UI widgets.
Allows you to use Interface Builder to lay out all of the screens in your program and define the transitions between them.

15. How do you get quick help on your code?
Click on the magnifying glass in the search field and select 'Show Find Options'.
Press CTRL+CMD+? over any code.
It informs you (and links you to) any issues in your code.
It allows you to create an application that runs both on the iPhone and iPad devices.