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Learning Swift Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Andrew J Wagner
Book Image

Learning Swift Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Andrew J Wagner

Overview of this book

Swift is Apple’s new programming language and the future of iOS and OS X app development. It is a high-performance language that feels like a modern scripting language. On the surface, Swift is easy to jump into, but it has complex underpinnings that are critical to becoming proficient at turning an idea into reality. This book is an approachable, step-by-step introduction into programming with Swift for everyone. It begins by giving you an overview of the key features through practical examples and progresses to more advanced topics that help differentiate the proficient developers from the mediocre ones. It covers important concepts such as Variables, Optionals, Closures, Generics, and Memory Management. Mixed in with those concepts, it also helps you learn the art of programming such as maintainability, useful design patterns, and resources to further your knowledge. This all culminates in writing a basic iOS app that will get you well on your way to turning your own app ideas into reality.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Swift Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring the user interface


Now that we have our bearings within the project, let's jump into configuring the user interface of our app. As we discussed earlier, this is done within the Main.storyboard file. When we select that file, we are presented with a graphical editing tool, generally referred to as Interface Builder:

In the center, there is a main view that is controlled by a ViewController instance. This is a blank canvas where we can add all of the interface elements we want.

The first thing we want to do is add the bar along the top that is in our wireframes. This bar is called a navigation bar and we can add it directly, as it is one of the elements in our library. However, the frameworks will handle many complications for us if we use a Navigation Controller instead. A Navigation Controller is a view controller that contains other view controllers. Specifically, it adds a navigation bar to the top and allows us to push child view controllers onto it in the future. This controller...