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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

Adding 3D Touch quick actions


For our app, we are going to add four quick actions (which is the maximum amount that you can have). These actions will do the following:

  1. Launch the Map.

  2. Launch the locations.

  3. Select Los Angeles as a location.

  4. Select Las Vegas as a location.

There are two types of quick actions: static and dynamic. Static means that they cannot be changed and dynamic means that they can be. For example, Apple has 3D Touch on their Messages app. If you press hard on the Messages app, you will see one static quick action, New Message, and three dynamic quick actions, the three most texted contacts.

In our app, we will have two static quick actions, launching the Map tab and the locations list, and two dynamic quick actions, launching Los Angeles and Las Vegas as locations. Let's start setting up our quick actions:

  1. Right-click on the Misc folder inside the Common folder and select New File.

  2. Inside the Choose a template for your new file screen, select iOS at the top and, then, Swift File...