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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

Listing videos


Let's start with the first scene, where the user will see, in the table view, a list of his/her videos. In this scene, we just need to add a label and a table view. Set the label title to Choose your video and place it at the top center of the screen. Under it, place the table view, occupying the rest of the screen. The final layout should be similar to the following screenshot:

Once you have the scene layout, go to its view controller file, import the Photos framework, and complete the class header by adding the UITableViewDataSource and UITableViewDelegate protocols. This is shown in the following highlighted code:

import Photos

class InitialViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDataSource, UITableViewDelegate {

Note

Photos is a framework that replaces Assets Library and it is available for iOS 8.0. Therefore, ensure that your deployment target is for iOS 8 or above while using this framework.

This class needs two attributes: one is the table view instance and the other...