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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

Section header

Our section header will include the page title, the selected location, and a button that we will use to see the locations:

  1. Select the Collection View in the Main.storyboard outline.
  2. In your Utilities Panel, select the Attributes inspector and, under Collection View Accessories, select the checkbox next to section header:
  1. You will see a box appear above our Demo Grey cell, which is our new section header—select it:
  1. In the Attributes inspector in the Utilities Panel, update Identifier to header:

Let's build and run the project by hitting the Play button (or use command + R):

You will see that you now have a grid of boxes and some white space (the section header) near the top of the grid. Before we work on the section header, let's update our grid to match our design of two items per row with a particular cell size.

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