How to make an iOS “Hello World” app (iPhone) in Swift.

Scott
3 min readJun 14, 2018

Ok, first download Xcode.

Open it.

Command— shift — n

You probably don’t have to worry about the organization id, name etc. The automatically provided values will probably be just fine.

YOU DO want to make sure the Language is Swift. Objective C is an ugly language. Swift was created for iOS but more projects are using it such as Perfect which is a backend service written in Swift.

Click create

You’ll see something like this.

You can run your blank app right away by clicking the Play button!

Xcode is going to open a separate program called Simulator which will present a simulation of your app on your desktop.

Now lets add a label. First click on Main.storyboard.

You should see something like this.

Now search for a label in the bottom of the attributes inspector which is the panel on the right hand side.

Search for Label.

Then drag it on to your view controller.

You can change the text of the label. Double click on it. Then simply type the new text.

Then click Return when you’re done.

Now run your app.

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