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Mastering iOS 12 Programming - Third Edition

By : Donny Wals
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Mastering iOS 12 Programming - Third Edition

By: Donny Wals

Overview of this book

The iOS development environment has significantly matured, and with Apple users spending more money in the App Store, there are plenty of development opportunities for professional iOS developers. However, the journey to mastering iOS development and the new features of iOS 12 is not straightforward. This book will help you make that transition smoothly and easily. With the help of Swift 4.2, you’ll not only learn how to program for iOS 12, but also how to write efficient, readable, and maintainable Swift code that maintains industry best practices. Mastering iOS 12 Programming will help you build real-world applications and reflect the real-world development flow. You will also find a mix of thorough background information and practical examples, teaching you how to start implementing your newly gained knowledge. By the end of this book, you will have got to grips with building iOS applications that harness advanced techniques and make best use of the latest and greatest features available in iOS 12.
Table of Contents (35 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned a lot about CloudKit. You learned what CloudKit is and what it's used for. You added the required capabilities to your app, and then you explored your new CloudKit container in the CloudKit dashboard. You used the dashboard to define some models that you will later use in your app.

After configuring the CloudKit dashboard, you got your hands dirty by implementing a CloudKit sync feature for the MustC app. You learned that CloudKit makes extensive use of Operations to manage database operations. You also had to set up AppDelegate so it would subscribe the app to changes in the user's database. Then you learned how you can fetch updates from CloudKit using a change token, and how to send new records to CloudKit.

To wrap the feature up, you adapted your Core Data store to make it act as a local cache for CloudKit. You saw how to convert a Core Data model object to a CloudKit record and vice versa. This chapter made some extensive use of extensions on objects...