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Swift 2 Blueprints

By : Cecil Costa
Book Image

Swift 2 Blueprints

By: Cecil Costa

Overview of this book

In this book, you will work through seven different projects to get you hands-on with developing amazing applications for iOS devices. We start off with a project that teaches you how to build a utility app using Swift. Moving on, we cover the concepts behind developing an entertainment or social networking related application, for example, a small application that helps you to share images, audio, and video files from one device to another. You’ll also be guided through create a city information app with customized table views, a reminder app for the Apple Watch, and a game app using SpriteKit. By the end of this book, you will have the required skillset to develop various types of iOS applications with Swift that can run on different iOS devices. You will also be well versed with complex techniques that can be used to enhance the performance of your applications.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Swift 2 Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Displaying the Wikipedia information


Now, we are going to display the city information by displaying its Wikipedia page. To do it, we need to add a new view controller to our app. So, we will add a new Swift file called WikiViewController.swift to the ViewControllers group.

Right now we are only going to create an almost empty class; nevertheless, we are going to return here after a while to complete its code.

import UIKit
class WikiViewController:UIViewController {
    var cityInfo:CityInfo!
}

Go back to the storyboard and add a new view controller to it. Open the view controller's Identity inspector, and change its class from the default one to WikiViewController. Taking advantage that we are on the Identity inspector, let's also change the Storyboard ID to wikicity as it is shown in the following screenshot:

After this, we can change the view background to gray (FAFAFA) and add two labels and a web view to the layout. Write City Info on the first label, change its alignment to center and...