Setting up your environment

In order to setup, customize and install Loop onto your iOS device you will need the following:

1. A Mac capable of running Xcode 7.3 (or later)
2. An iOS device running iOS 9.3 (or later)
3. A lightning to USB cable (used to connect iOS device to your Mac to install the app directly from an Xcode build)

Set up your Mac with Loop

1. Download Xcode from the Mac App Store
2. Fork the Loop repository

• Use your Github account (or create one if needed)
• Go to the Loop repository
• Press fork in the upper right. This will make a copy of the repository for you to customize and save it to your github account.

3. Set up an easy sync between your github repository and your local machine

• Install github desktop onto your macOS machine
• Go back to your repository on the web -> https://github.com/YOURNAME/Loop
• Press the “Clone or download” button and then choose desktop. Now your own copy of the code has been pulled from github.com and stored on your local hard drive. Make note of where it stored it, you will need that later. Later you can go into the github desktop client to commit your changes, change branches, etc as you play with and test different versions of code.

4. Open Xcode and then open Loop.xcodeproj from the directory where you saved Loop in the setup above. You are now ready to start coding and/or building your app!