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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

Working with filters


Based on our design, we know that we are going to need to apply filters to a photo. Instead of just creating an array with filters, we are going to use a plist to load in a set of filters that we want. You can find the FilterData.plist file inside this chapter's asset folder. Drag and drop this file into the Model folder that is inside the Review folder. Make sure that Copy items if needed is checked, and then hit Finish.

Let's take a look at the plist and see what it contains:

This list only has 10 of over 170 filters and effects that you can use. If you would like to see a full list of filters, you can find the list at http://tinyurl.com/coreimage-ios. Feel free to add, remove, or update any filters.

Now that we have seen what our plist looks like, we need to create a Model that represents this data. We also need to create a Manager class to manage our items. Let's create the Model first:

  1. Right-click the Model folder in the Review folder and select New File.

  2. Inside the...