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Swift 2 Blueprints

By : Cecil Costa
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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

Chapter 3. Creating a Photo Sharing App

Nowadays, there is a big percentage of iPhone users who are also social network users. Don't ask how or why, you just have to accept this phenomenon. It implies that you probably may have to develop an app using social network APIs.

Another phenomenon that also comes with the popularity of smartphones is the camera usage. Basically, people have stopped buying traditional photo cameras and started using the camera that comes with their iPhones. There is a variety of reasons behind it and one of them is that they can take a picture with their phone camera and share it through their favorite social networking website.

Based on this fashion, in this chapter, we are going to develop an app to use the camera, edit pictures, and share them with our friends.

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Using the camera with UIImgePickerController

  • Creating a custom UIView

  • Manipulating an UIImage

  • Posting on Facebook using Social Framework