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iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

By : Craig Clayton
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iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

By: Craig Clayton

Overview of this book

You want to build iOS applications for iPhone and iPad—but where do you start? Forget sifting through tutorials and blog posts, this is a direct route into iOS development, taking you through the basics and showing you how to put the principles into practice. With every update, iOS has become more and more developer-friendly, so take advantage of it and begin building applications that might just take the App Store by storm! Whether you’re an experienced programmer or a complete novice, this book guides you through every facet of iOS development. From Xcode and Swift—the building blocks of modern Apple development—and Playgrounds for beginners, one of the most popular features of the iOS development experience, you’ll quickly gain a solid foundation to begin venturing deeper into your development journey. For the experienced programmer, jump right in and learn the latest iOS 10 features. You’ll also learn the core elements of iOS design, from tables to tab bars, as well as more advanced topics such as gestures and animations that can give your app the edge. Find out how to manage databases, as well as integrating standard elements such as photos, GPS into your app. With further guidance on beta testing with TestFlight, you’ll quickly learn everything you need to get your project on the App Store!
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
iOS 10 Programming for Beginners
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Familiar with Xcode
Index

Location list


Let's review how our app will work. A user will select a cuisine and location. Then, the location will be passed to the Explore View. The user will get restaurants from the selected location filtered by the selected cuisine.

If this were online, we would pass the location to the API, and the API would return the JSON data. As you can see, we are doing the same. When you eventually deal with an API, the transition of working with online data will be seamless.

Selecting a location

Therefore, as stated earlier, in order to get data, we need a location. In order to get the location, we need to get it from the LocationViewController. When a location is selected, we will show a checkmark. We will need this checkmark to update each time a new item is set. Finally, when the Done button is tapped, we need to pass this location to ExploreViewController.

Let's update our LocationViewController first. We need a variable to keep track of the selected location. Add the following inside the LocationViewController...