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Application Development in iOS 7

Application Development in iOS 7

By : Kyle Begeman
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Application Development in iOS 7

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By: Kyle Begeman
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Application Development in iOS 7
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Application Development in iOS 7
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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Xcode 5 – A Developer's Ultimate Tool
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Xcode 5 – A Developer's Ultimate Tool
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The new user experience
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Top-level documentation
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Debugger and debug gauges
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Automatic configuration with accounts and capabilities
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Source control
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Asset catalogs
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Quick build device selection
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Storyboard previews
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Summary
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Foundation Framework – Growing Up
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Foundation Framework – Growing Up
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Why Foundation matters
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Modules
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NSProgress
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NSArray
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NSTimer
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NSData
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NSURLUtilities
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Summary
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Auto Layout 2.0
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Auto Layout 2.0
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Why you should use Auto Layout
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Creating our project
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Starting our storyboard
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Setting up button actions
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Using Auto Layout
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Applying constraints
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Resolving Auto Layout issues
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Finishing our menu view
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Preparing for navigation
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Summary
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Building Our Application for iOS 7
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Building Our Application for iOS 7
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Designing for iOS 7
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Putting together the pieces
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Creating and Saving User Data
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Creating and Saving User Data
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Picking up where we left off
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The navigation bar style
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Adding our button action
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Adding buttons to our navigation bar
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Adjusting our storyboard view
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Adding our delegates
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Using a tap gesture
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Getting the image from UIImagePickerController
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Adding the text field delegate
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Saving the data
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Displaying User Data
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Displaying User Data
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Custom cell
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Adding food
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Loading data
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Displaying data
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Showing the detail view
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Coding the detail view
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Manipulating Text with TextKit
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Manipulating Text with TextKit
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What is TextKit?
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Dynamic type
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Exclusion paths
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Adding letterpress
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Text formatting
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Underlining text
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Adding Physics with UIKit Dynamics
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Adding Physics with UIKit Dynamics
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Motion and physics in UIKit
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Adding gravity
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UIDynamicAnimator
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UIGravityBehavior
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Behavior properties
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Creating boundaries
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Collisions
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Creating invisible boundaries
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Dynamic items
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Manipulating item properties
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Collision notifications
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Attaching items to other items
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Snapping items
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Using motion in our app
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Why you should use Auto Layout

Prior to Auto Layout, building applications to dynamically support multiple screen sizes and orientations required large amounts of work. Auto-resizing masks, springs, and struts are all examples of the tools that developers would commonly struggle to use. These tools did not always produce the correct result, so the typical next best action was to detect screen sizes in code and adjust the layout accordingly. When working on an application with many views and layouts, this can become frustrating.

With iOS 6, Apple introduced a new feature called Auto Layout. The premise was pretty straightforward: allow developers to define constraints on all visual elements in a storyboard in order to control the layout and flow of an application. Unfortunately, Auto Layout caused many headaches.

The main issue was related to the fact that Auto Layout required every object to have proper constraints attached to it. If you failed to provide a single constraint, Xcode would generate...

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