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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

Setting Up the Basic Structure

Typically, before I write any code when working on a project, I like to set up my storyboard, which allows me to focus on coding without having to go back and forth from storyboard to code. In this book, we will do some of our layouts in code to show you how to do that. But first, as I mentioned earlier, my preference is to set up as much as I can inside of the storyboard.

The following will be covered in this chapter:

  • Creating a Tab Bar Controller
  • Tab Bar buttons
  • Launch screens
  • Navigation Controllers

In the last chapter, we created our project, and now we are going to continue with that by building a Tab bar Controller from scratch. Although there is a Tab Bar Controller template that has everything you need, I find that starting from scratch is an excellent way to learn. Also, I find that it is easier to start to clean, rather than fix or update...