Up to this point in the book, we've been focused on learning about the different aspects of iOS development, and then applying those concepts to sketch out the rough features and interactions of an app. Now that we've built our app up to a pretty decent point, let's take some time to explore the kinds of functionality that we can add to our app using some of the commonly used frameworks built into the iOS SDK.
In the last two chapters, we've been using the framework UIKit
almost every step of the way. In this chapter we'll take a deeper look at this essential iOS framework, in addition to learning about the CoreLocation
and the Social
frameworks. We will cover the following topics:
What is a framework, and how do we use them?
The basics of
UIKit
Using
CoreLocation
to integrate location dataUsing the
Social
framework to share content with social media