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Learning iOS UI Development

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Learning iOS UI Development

Overview of this book

Through this comprehensive one-stop guide, you’ll get to grips with the entire UIKit framework and in a flash, you’ll be creating modern user interfaces for your iOS devices using Swift. Starting with an overview of the iOS drawing system and the available tools, you will then learn how to use these technologies to create adaptable layouts and custom elements for your applications. Next, you’ll be introduced to other topics such as animation and code-drawing with Core Graphics, which will give you all the knowledge you need to create astonishing user interfaces. By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation in iOS user interface development and will have gained valuable insights on the process of building firm and complex UIs.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning iOS UI Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


With this chapter, you learned some of the very important basics that allow you to understand how UI elements are created, presented, and managed by the system. All these notions are essential to build simple and complex user interfaces, and they define a helpful starting point to easily read and appreciate the rest of this book.

The next chapter introduces the UIKit framework, an important set of classes that you will use in your everyday work. UIKit defines all the prebuilt UI elements of iOS and other classes that are fundamental to creating a complete and interactive layout.