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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

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
www.PacktPub.com
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Preface
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Preface
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1
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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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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Summary
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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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Dynamic type

One of the biggest new features of iOS 7 from a user experience standpoint is the ability to adjust OS-wide text formatting. This includes increasing the font weight (bold) and text size. These settings can be set in the device's settings application. Although it is not a requirement to support dynamic type, it is recommended to do so! Here is an example of these settings:

When typically dealing with fonts, we specify the font family name and the size we want to set, as follows:

[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue" size:19.0f]

When working with dynamic type, we will use fonts with styles instead of using the literal name of any font unlike the preceding code. UIFont has been equipped with a new method called preferredFontForTextStyle. This loads the selected font preferences from the user's device and sets the text to the given style. Here is an example of the multiple font styles:

The text on the left-hand side is the smallest size able to be rendered, the middle text is the largest...

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