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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

Dictionaries

A dictionary is an unordered collection of values, with each one accessed through a unique key. Let's look at the following diagram:

In our diagram, we have a dictionary of pizzas (keys) with their prices (values). To find something inside a dictionary, we must look it up according to its key. Let's look at a dictionary syntax:

Dictionary<Key, Value>

Now, that we understand what a dictionary is and its syntax let's look at how we can use it by creating our first dictionary.

Creating a dictionary

The traditional way of creating a dictionary is to first declare it as a dictionary and then, inside angle brackets, declare a type for the key and value. Let's create our first dictionary inside...