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Swift 2 Blueprints

By : Cecil Costa
Book Image

Swift 2 Blueprints

By: Cecil Costa

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 (15 chapters)
Swift 2 Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

A scene to add supplies


Starting with the option to add supplies, we create a new file in the project called AddSuppliesViewController.swift. Start importing UIKit and creating a class that inherits from UIViewController with the same name as the file. This class will also work with UIPickerView, which implies that we have to implement the UIPickerViewDataSource and UIPickerViewDelegate protocols. We will also need to implement UITextFieldDelegate. Leave this class empty for now; don't worry about the compiler errors:

class AddSupplyViewController: UIViewController, UIPickerViewDataSource, UIPickerViewDelegate, UITextFieldDelegate
{
}

Return to the storyboard and add a new view controller to it. Connect the AddSupply button from the first scene to this new view controller by control-dragging it from the button to the new scene. Update the scene class in its Identity inspector to AddSupplyViewController as shown in the following screenshot:

In this scene, we need to set the product name, the...