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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

Hooking up our outlets

Let's now link our file, RestaurantViewController, to our new UIViewController in the storyboard:

  1. Select the UIViewController with the Collection View that we just created.
  2. In the Utility panel, select the Identity inspector. Under Custom Class, in the Class drop-down menu, select RestaurantViewController and hit the Enter key.
  3. Select the Connections Inspector in the Utilities Panel.
  4. Under Outlets, (just like we did earlier) click on the collectionView circle and drag from the circle to the Collection View that we just added inside of your UIViewController.

Now that we have our Collection View hooked up, we need to hook up the data source and delegate. The data source and delegate allow us to pass data to our Collection View as well as to know when our Collection View has some interaction. Let's do that now by doing the following:

  1. In your scene...