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Application Development in iOS 7

By : Kyle Begeman

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Application Development in iOS 7

4.7 (3)

By: Kyle Begeman

Overview of this book

Application Development in iOS 7

Application Development in iOS 7

Credits

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Preface

Free Chapter

Xcode 5 – A Developer's Ultimate Tool

Xcode 5 – A Developer's Ultimate Tool

The new user experience

Top-level documentation

Debugger and debug gauges

Automatic configuration with accounts and capabilities

Source control

Asset catalogs

Quick build device selection

Storyboard previews

Summary

Foundation Framework – Growing Up

Foundation Framework – Growing Up

Why Foundation matters

Modules

NSProgress

NSArray

NSTimer

NSData

NSURLUtilities

Summary

Auto Layout 2.0

Auto Layout 2.0

Why you should use Auto Layout

Creating our project

Starting our storyboard

Setting up button actions

Using Auto Layout

Applying constraints

Resolving Auto Layout issues

Finishing our menu view

Preparing for navigation

Summary

Building Our Application for iOS 7

Building Our Application for iOS 7

Designing for iOS 7

Putting together the pieces

Summary

Creating and Saving User Data

Creating and Saving User Data

Picking up where we left off

The navigation bar style

Adding our button action

Adding buttons to our navigation bar

Adjusting our storyboard view

Adding our delegates

Using a tap gesture

Getting the image from UIImagePickerController

Adding the text field delegate

Saving the data

Summary

Displaying User Data

Displaying User Data

Custom cell

Adding food

Loading data

Displaying data

Showing the detail view

Coding the detail view

Summary

Manipulating Text with TextKit

Manipulating Text with TextKit

What is TextKit?

Dynamic type

Exclusion paths

Adding letterpress

Text formatting

Underlining text

Summary

Adding Physics with UIKit Dynamics

Adding Physics with UIKit Dynamics

Motion and physics in UIKit

Adding gravity

UIDynamicAnimator

UIGravityBehavior

Behavior properties

Creating boundaries

Collisions

Creating invisible boundaries

Dynamic items

Manipulating item properties

Collision notifications

Attaching items to other items

Snapping items

Using motion in our app

Summary

Index

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we covered some of the major updates to the Foundation Framework. It is always recommended that you stay up to date with the advancements to Objective-C and Apple's core frameworks. With this knowledge, you now have the tools to build more efficient and better-performing applications!

Now that we have a better understanding of the new features found in Foundation, it's time to start building our application. In the next chapter, we will begin building our interface using the new Auto Layout features in iOS 7.

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