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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 models


Let's create some models before we start with any visual part for the app. First, add a new file called Supply.swift. Here, we are going to create a class that represents some supplies, which can be of the drink, food, and dessert types. To differentiate them, we are going to create an enumeration called SupplyType:

enum SupplyType:String{
    case Drink = "drink", Food = "food", Dessert = "dessert"
}

Tip

You can create enumerations nested in a class; however, this kind of implementations still have some limitations. Therefore, it is still considered to be a better idea while implementing it independently.

Now, we need to create the Supply class. In this class, we need an attribute for the supply's name, another one for its type, and two private attributes to control its duration. We will also create a method to consume such supplies and another one to estimate when they are going to end. Remember that their duration is based on the time we need to consume the supply, not on their...