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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.

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Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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1
Getting Familiar with Xcode
Getting Familiar with Xcode
Getting started
The Xcode interface
Summary
2
Building a Foundation with Swift
Building a Foundation with Swift
Playgrounds – an interactive coding environment
Data types – where it all starts
Type safety and type inference
Operations with our integers
Summary
3
Building on the Swift Foundation
Building on the Swift Foundation
Creating a Playground project
The if statements – having fun with logic statements
Optionals and optional bindings
Functions
Summary
4
Digging Deeper
Digging Deeper
Creating a Playground project
Ranges
Control flow
Summary
5
Digging into Collections
Digging into Collections
Arrays
Dictionaries
Sets
Summary
6
Starting the UI Setup
Starting the UI Setup
Useful terms
App tour
Project setup
Summary
7
Setting Up the Basic Structure
Setting Up the Basic Structure
Starting from scratch
Storyboard setup
Summary
8
Building Our App Structure in Storyboard
Building Our App Structure in Storyboard
Adding a Collection View Controller
Hooking up our outlets
Creating a custom color
Setting up our cell
Section header
Updating the grid
Adding a modal
Summary
9
Finishing Up Our App Structure in Storyboard
Finishing Up Our App Structure in Storyboard
Adding our Restaurant List View
Hooking up our outlets
Setting up our cell
Adding the Reviews View
Viewing reviews
Map Kit View
Summary
10
Designing Cells
Designing Cells
Setting up the Explore header
Setting up the Restaurant cell
Summary
11
Getting Started with the Grid
Getting Started with the Grid
Understanding the Model View Controller architecture
Classes and structures
Controllers and classes
Summary
12
Getting Data into Our Grid
Getting Data into Our Grid
Model
Getting data
Connecting to our cell
Hooking up our UI with IBOutlets
Restaurant listing
Summary
13
Getting Started with the List
Getting Started with the List
Understanding Table Views
Creating our Location View Controller class
Connecting our Table View with our Location View Controller
Digging into our Table View code
Adding the data source and delegate
Adding locations to our Table View
Creating our first property list (plist)
Adding data to our property list
Creating our location data manager
Working with our data manager
Summary
14
Where Are We?
Where Are We?
Setting up map annotations
Creating and adding annotations
Map to restaurant detail
Organizing your code
Summary
15
Working with an API
Working with an API
Creating an API Manager
Location list
Summary
16
Displaying Data in Restaurant Detail
Displaying Data in Restaurant Detail
Displaying data in our static Table View
Summary
17
Foodie Reviews
Foodie Reviews
Getting started with reviews
Displaying ratings in our custom UIControl
Adding our touch events
Setting up the unwind segues
Creating our ReviewFormController
Summary
18
Working with Photo Filters
Working with Photo Filters
Understanding filters
Creating our filter scroller
Getting permission
Summary
19
Understanding Core Data
Understanding Core Data
What is Core Data?
Creating a data model
Summary
20
Saving Reviews
Saving Reviews
Saving reviews
Saving photos
Adding an overall rating
Summary
21
Universal
Universal
Explore
Location listing
Restaurant listing
Summary
22
iMessages
iMessages
Understanding iMessages
Creating a framework
Showing restaurants
Summary
23
Notifications
Notifications
Starting with the basics
Customizing our notifications
Summary
24
SiriKit
SiriKit
Using Siri Shortcuts
Summary
25
Beta and Store Submission
Beta and Store Submission
Creating a bundle identifier
Creating a certificate signing request
Creating production and development certificates
Creating a production provisioning profile
Creating a development provisioning profile
Creating an App Store listing
Creating an archive build
Internal and external testing
Summary
26
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Creating an API Manager

In this chapter, we will be building an API Manager. This manager will be responsible for anything that has to do with getting data from the internet. When dealing with data online, you will typically get i0t in a particular format, which you then need to convert into something that your app can read.

What is an API?

A RESTful API is a web service from which an app can receive data. Typically, when you are dealing with APIs, such as YELP, they tend to change often. For our purposes, we want to use static files so that we can work on this project without having to be concerned about changes to the API. Therefore, most of the data we are going to use comes from the http://opentable.herokuapp.com/ site...

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