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Swift Essentials

By : Alex Blewitt, Bandlem Limited
Book Image

Swift Essentials

By: Alex Blewitt, Bandlem Limited

Overview of this book

Whether you are a seasoned Objective-C developer or new to the Xcode platform, Swift Essentials will provide you with all you need to know to get started with the language. Prior experience with iOS development is not necessary, but will be helpful to get the most out of the book.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Swift Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a master-detail iOS application


Having covered how classes, protocols, and enums are defined in Swift, a more complex master-detail application can be created. A master-detail application is a specific type of iOS application that initially presents a table view, and when an individual element is selected, a secondary details view will show more information about the selected item.

Using the Create a new Xcode project option from the welcome screen, navigate to File | New | Project... or press Command + Shift + N, and select Master-Detail Application from the iOS Application category:

In the subsequent dialog, enter appropriate values for the project, such as the name (MasterDetail), the organizational identifier (typically based on the reverse DNS name), ensure that the Language drop-down reads Swift and that it is targeted for Universal devices.

When the project is created, an Xcode window will open, containing all the files created by the wizard itself, including the MasterDetail...