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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

Adding data to our property list

As you learned in the previous chapter, our plist has a Root; for this new file, we created a Dictionary as our Root type. Since we are going to display a list of locations, we need our Root to be an Array:

  1. Click on Dictionary in the plist and change it to Array:
  1. You should see a plus next to Array (if the plus button is not displaying, hover your mouse over that line item, and it will appear):
  1. Click on the plus button, and it will add a new item with a String type. Change the type to Dictionary:
  1. Click on the plus button that appears when you hover over Item 0.
  2. We now need to update the New Item. Update the Key property to say state and update the Value property of the new item by entering CO:
  1. Next, click on the plus button when you hover over the state.
  2. Update the Key property to say city and update the Value property of the new item...