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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

Creating production and development certificates

We need to create production and development certificates. Production certificates are used for the App Store, while development certificates are used to verify that you are a team member who allows apps signed by you to launch on a device. Remember that Xcode 9 can now handle this for you, but knowing the process is still useful. Let's start by creating a production certificate first:

  1. Log in to the Apple developer account, and you will see the following screen:
  1. Click Certificates, IDs & Profiles, and then under Certificates, select All.
  2. Click on the + button at the top right of the screen:
  1. On the screen that appears, select App Store and Ad Hoc under Production and then click Continue:
  1. The following screen then lists the steps required for creating a CSR file (which we have already created). Click Continue:
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