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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

Retrieving some pictures


Now, we are going to display some pictures that were taken on the chosen city. As you know, we can use a table view for it. But, for this scenario, Apple has something more appropriate called the collection view.

Create a new file in the ViewControllers group called PicturesViewController.swift. Start by creating a class that inherits from UICollectionViewController:

import UIKit

class PicturesViewController: UICollectionViewController {

This class will need a special nested class to store the pictures' information, as we need to keep the URL, the title, the pictures ID, and the local path where it is stored:

    private class PhotoInfo {
        var title:String!
        var url:String!
        var localPath:String!
        var id:String!
    }

As properties, we just need the cityInfo and the array of PhotoInfo:

    var cityInfo:CityInfo!
    private var photos = [PhotoInfo]()

After this, we can initialize the array by requesting Flickr for a list of pictures and then...