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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

The setup


Open your Xcode and create a new project. This time, instead of selecting Single View Application, you have to choose the Game template.

The preceding screenshot shows a template called Game. However, in the previous versions of Xcode, it was called SpriteKit. The name was changed due to the introduction of Metal and Scene Kit.

In the next dialog, some information will be required to set up the game. Set its name to Chapter 6 DinoSurf and ensure that Swift is its main language and SpriteKit is the chosen game technology. Your settings must be the same as it is in the following screenshot:

Then, choose the folder where you want to save the project and you will see your new project, however, you will appreciate a few differences. Instead of a file called ViewController.swift, you have GameViewController.swift and besides this file, you have two new files: GameScene.swift and GameScene.sks. Don't worry about the meaning or the content of each of these files; we are going to see it very...