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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

Training your own models with CreateML


As part of Xcode 10 and Apple's latest version of macOS, called Mojave, they have shipped a new tool that you can use to train your own machine learning models by adding specializations to existing models. This means that you can train your own natural language model that places certain texts in categories that you define. Or, you can train a model that recognizes certain product names or terms in a text that is specific to your application's domain.

If you're building a news app, you might want to train a CoreML model that can automatically categorize the articles in the app. You can then use this model to keep track of the articles your users read, and present articles that are most likely to fit their interests on a dedicated page in your app.

In this segment, you will learn how to train natural language models and how you can train an image recognition model based on the Vision framework. In doing so, you will find that creating a large and optimized...