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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

Explore

Let's make some design tweaks before we jump into making our layout work for every device and start to get this app more polished.

Let's compare what we can see on an iPhone 8 with the original design:

There are a few things we need to fix:

  • Implement rounded corners
  • Remove the gray background
  • The navigation bar is being displayed
  • Tab bar color
  • Spacing

We will fix all of these, but we will focus on the first four right now. We have rounded corners in our photo filter list. We can implement these here. Open the ExploreCell.swift file by hitting command + shift + O, type ExploreCell, and hit enter. Add the following extension:

private extension ExploreCell {
func roundedCorners() {
imgExplore.layer.cornerRadius = 9
imgExplore.layer.masksToBounds = true
}
}

Add a roundedCorners() call inside the layoutSubviews method:

override func layoutSubviews...