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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

Improving the usability


So far, the app works and does what it is supposed to do, but we can still improve it. We should give the user the opportunity to return to the first screen and repeat the procedure with another video. Return to InitialViewController and add the following method that will reload the videos while returning to this view controller:

    @IBAction func unwindToMainView(segue:UIStoryboardSegue) {
        self.initAssets()
    }

Now, go to the storyboard and control-drag from the RecorderViewController icon to its exit icon, as shown in the following screenshot:

After releasing the mouse button, select the unwindToMainView: option. A new component with the Unwind segue to Scene Exit Placeholder phrase will appear on the document's outline. Click on it and go to its attribute inspector. In the Identifier field, set it to exitrecorder, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Now we can unwind to the main screen. To do it, we just need to return to the merge method and call...