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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By : Craig Clayton
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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By: Craig Clayton

Overview of this book

Want to build iOS 12 applications from scratch with the latest Swift 4.2 language and Xcode 10 by your side? Forget sifting through tutorials and blog posts; this book is a direct route to iOS development, taking you through the basics and showing you how to put principles into practice. Take advantage of this developer-friendly guide and start building applications that may just take the App Store by storm! If you’re already an experienced programmer, you can jump right in and learn the latest iOS 12 features. For beginners, this book starts by introducing you to iOS development as you learn Xcode and Swift. You'll also study advanced iOS design topics, such as gestures and animations, to give your app the edge. You’ll explore the latest Swift 4.2 and iOS 12 developments by incorporating new features, such as the latest in notifications, custom-UI notifications, maps, and the recent additions in Sirikit. The book will guide you in using TestFlight to quickly get to grips with everything you need to get your project on the App Store. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to start building your own cool iOS applications confidently.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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1
Getting Familiar with Xcode

Getting Data into Our Grid

Working with data is very important but, when teaching beginners, I like to do it in steps so that this process is a bit easier. In this chapter, we are going to work with data that is stored on the device. Later in this book, we will work with data that we get from a feed. Feed data means it is coming from a website URL, and using data from a feed means you can update the data without having to update the app.

We will cover the following in this chapter:

  • What is a model?
  • What is a plist?
  • How do we create a plist?
  • Working with the manager class

In the last chapter, we got the Explore listing up, but we have no data. We need to create a model object that will represent the information that our cell can use to display data.