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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

Map to restaurant detail

For us to go to the restaurant detail from the callout, we need to update our app so that our map can also open the restaurant detail. To do this, we must first create a storyboard reference. The project has a few storyboard references in the app already, but let's set up one together.

Creating a storyboard reference

To link to the restaurant detail from the map, we need to create a storyboard reference:

  1. Open the Map.storyboard, and in the object library (command + shift + L), drag a Storyboard Reference into the Map.storyboard scene:
  1. Next, select the Attributes inspector in the Utilities Panel, and update the storyboard under Storyboard Reference to say RestaurantDetail. Then, hit enter:...