Technical requirements
To do the exercises for this chapter, you will need the following:
- An Apple Mac computer running macOS 15 Sequoia or macOS Tahoe 26
- An Apple account (if you don’t have one, you will create one in this chapter)
- Optionally, an iOS device running iOS 26
The Xcode project for this chapter is in the Chapter01 folder of the code bundle for this book, which can be downloaded here:https://github.com/PacktPublishing/-iOS-26-Programming-for-Beginners-10EYou’ll start by downloading Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE) for developing iOS apps from the App Store, in the next section.
The total size of the download is very large (13 GB at the time of writing), so it may take a while to download. Ensure that you have enough disk space prior to downloading.