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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!

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iOS 10 Programming for Beginners
Craig Clayton
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Table of Contents (26 chapters)
iOS 10 Programming for Beginners
iOS 10 Programming for Beginners
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Familiar with Xcode
Getting Familiar with Xcode
Getting started
The Xcode interface
Summary
2
Building a Foundation with Swift
Building a Foundation with Swift
Playgrounds – an interactive coding environment
Data types – where it all starts
Comments – leaving yourself notes or reminders
Type safety and type inference
Operations with our Integers
Optionals and Optional Bindings
Functions
Let's Work
Summary
3
Digging Deeper
Digging Deeper
Creating a Playground project
Ranges
Control flow
Summary
4
Digging into Collections
Digging into Collections
Arrays
Dictionaries
Sets
Summary
5
Starting the UI Setup
Starting the UI Setup
Useful terms
Project setup
Storyboards
Creating a custom title view
Summary
6
Setting Up UI
Setting Up UI
Design clean up
Refactoring the Storyboard
Summary
7
Getting Started with the Grid
Getting Started with the Grid
Understanding the Model View Controller architecture
Getting familiar with the setup
Restaurant Listing
Summary
8
Getting Started with the List
Getting Started with the List
Updating UI in Storyboard
Adding Our First Table View
Creating Our First Property List (plist)
Summary
9
Working More with Lists
Working More with Lists
Creating our Restaurant detail
Setting up our static Table View
Address section
Creating Reviews
Reservations
Summary
10
Where Are We?
Where Are We?
Setting up map annotations
Creating our Map Data Manager
Creating and adding annotations
Refactoring restaurant detail
Organizing your code
Summary
11
Where's My Data?
Where's My Data?
Creating an API Manager
Location list
Getting the last selected location
Building our restaurant list
Setting up restaurant list cell outlets
Restaurant details
Map update
Challenge yourself
Summary
12
Foodie Reviews
Foodie Reviews
Getting started with reviews
Creating reviews
Working with filters
Summary
13
Saving Reviews
Saving Reviews
What is Core Data?
Creating a data model
Creating star ratings
Summary
14
Universal
Universal
Explore
Restaurant listing
Updating restaurant details
Summary
15
iMessages
iMessages
Understanding iMessages
Creating a framework
Summary
16
Notifications
Notifications
Starting with the basics
Customizing our notifications
Custom UI in notifications
Summary
17
Just a Peek
Just a Peek
Adding 3D Touch quick actions
Adding favorites
Summary
18
Beta and Store Submission
Beta and Store Submission
Creating a bundle identifier
Creating a Certificate Signing Request
Creating production and development certificates
Creating a Production Provisioning Profile
Creating a Development Provisioning Profile
Creating the App Store Listing
Creating an archive build
Internal and External Testing
Summary
Index
Index

Playgrounds – an interactive coding environment

Before we jump into building the app that we will be creating in later chapters, called Let's Eat, we need to understand the basics of Swift. An easy way to experiment with Swift is to use Playgrounds. It is an interactive coding environment, which evaluates your code and displays the results. Using Playgrounds gives us the ability to work with Swift without needing to create a project. It is great for prototyping a particular part of your app. So, whether you are learning or experimenting, Playgrounds is an invaluable tool. In order to create a Playground, we need to launch Xcode and click on Get started with a playground:

The options screen for creating a new Playground screen will appear:

First, name your new Playground SwiftFoundation, and then make sure your Platform is set to iOS. Now, we can explore Playgrounds a bit.

When you launch the app, you will see five distinct areas:

Let's breakdown each area in Playgrounds:

  • PLAYGROUND EDITOR: This...

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