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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By : Craig Clayton
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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By: Craig Clayton

Overview of this book

Want to build iOS 12 applications from scratch with the latest Swift 4.2 language and Xcode 10 by your side? Forget sifting through tutorials and blog posts; this book is a direct route to iOS development, taking you through the basics and showing you how to put principles into practice. Take advantage of this developer-friendly guide and start building applications that may just take the App Store by storm! If you’re already an experienced programmer, you can jump right in and learn the latest iOS 12 features. For beginners, this book starts by introducing you to iOS development as you learn Xcode and Swift. You'll also study advanced iOS design topics, such as gestures and animations, to give your app the edge. You’ll explore the latest Swift 4.2 and iOS 12 developments by incorporating new features, such as the latest in notifications, custom-UI notifications, maps, and the recent additions in Sirikit. The book will guide you in using TestFlight to quickly get to grips with everything you need to get your project on the App Store. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to start building your own cool iOS applications confidently.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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1
Getting Familiar with Xcode

Getting Started with the List

When I started doing iOS development, I first worked with Table Views. At the time, Collection Views hadn't been introduced yet. As you progress in iOS development, you will work with a lot of Table and Collection Views. You'll begin with just the basics to allow you to use them, and then you'll slowly progress into more advanced Table and Collection Views.

The reason that I bring this up is that, by the end of this chapter, you may feel as though things are not clicking. This is perfectly normal. However, the more you go through the steps in these chapters, the more they will become second nature to you.

For those of you who've not done iOS development, Table Views are great for presenting a list of data. The iPhone's Mail app is an example of a Table View.

In this chapter, we are going to work with our first Table View....