Wrap-Up

In this chapter, we’ve tried out all manner of techniques for making your source editing a more pleasant, more productive experience. From the pure aesthetics of fonts, colors, and themes, to various code completion techniques to get your code written correctly and faster, we’ve hopefully sped things up. In particular, Xcode offers lots of ways to avoid losing focus—whether that’s being able to use a snippet rather than going to the documentation window (or worse yet, opening a browser on Stack Overflow), to using the Jump Bar and other navigation techniques within the editor rather than needing to turn to the File Navigator.

You’re going to be spending most of your time in the editor, it might as well be a pleasant experience, right?

Next up, we’re going take all this code (and your storyboards and other assets from earlier), and run them through the build system. Just like with the editor, there are lots of things you can control to improve both your developer experience and the apps that Xcode produces.