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Swift 2 Blueprints

Swift 2 Blueprints

By : Costa
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Swift 2 Blueprints

Swift 2 Blueprints

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By: Costa
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Overview of this book

In this book, you will work through seven different projects to get you hands-on with developing amazing applications for iOS devices. We start off with a project that teaches you how to build a utility app using Swift. Moving on, we cover the concepts behind developing an entertainment or social networking related application, for example, a small application that helps you to share images, audio, and video files from one device to another. You’ll also be guided through create a city information app with customized table views, a reminder app for the Apple Watch, and a game app using SpriteKit. By the end of this book, you will have the required skillset to develop various types of iOS applications with Swift that can run on different iOS devices. You will also be well versed with complex techniques that can be used to enhance the performance of your applications.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Exploring Xcode
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1. Exploring Xcode
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Keyboard shortcuts
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Versioning your project
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Testing with Playground
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Debugging
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New Swift features
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Some final comments
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Summary
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2. Creating a City Information App with Customized Table Views
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2. Creating a City Information App with Customized Table Views
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Project overview
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Setting it up
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The first scene
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Displaying the cities' information
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Coding the initial view controller
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Adding the page view controller
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Displaying the Wikipedia information
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Displaying weather forecasts
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Retrieving some pictures
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3. Creating a Photo Sharing App
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3. Creating a Photo Sharing App
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Project overview
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The camera
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Custom UIView
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The social framework
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Creating the app
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Creating a view to draw on it
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Developing the edition space
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Publishing your picture
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Summary
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4. Simulating Home Automation with HomeKit
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4. Simulating Home Automation with HomeKit
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Project overview
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Preparing yourself for HomeKit
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Building view controllers with HomeKit
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Summary
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5. Health Analyzing App Using HealthKit
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5. Health Analyzing App Using HealthKit
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Project overview
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The setup
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Creating helpers
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Asking permission
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Displaying and saving the user's health data
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Checking your health record
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Charts on the storyboard
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6. Creating a Game App Using SpriteKit
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6. Creating a Game App Using SpriteKit
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Project overview
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The setup
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7. Creating an Apple Watch App
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7. Creating an Apple Watch App
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Project overview
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Setting it up
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The iOS app
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The models
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A scene to add supplies
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Displaying the fridge's status
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Going to the supermarket
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The WatchApp
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Communicating with the iOS app
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Displaying the map on the watch
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The glance
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8. AVFoundation
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8. AVFoundation
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Getting a project overview
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Setting up the app
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Storing some asset information
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Listing videos
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Recording
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Improving the usability
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Index
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Chapter 6. Creating a Game App Using SpriteKit

Since the creation of the first video game, 2D games are considered to be a big source of entertainment. There are big classic games like Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros that still entertain the new generation. As you know, smartphones and tablets can also be used as a new kind of video game console. There are games designed specifically for such devices that have become very popular like Candy Crush.

A developer can create a game using the traditional UI components like UIView and UIImage. However, its file size can get too heavy as these components are not specific to games. Due to this reason, Apple has created a framework especially for 2D game development called SpriteKit.

SpriteKit was created in a way that a developer needed only a few classes to use it, making it simple and useful.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating scenes
  • Creating nodes
  • Different types of actions
  • Checking for collisions
  • Using the accelerometer...
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