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Learning Xcode 8

By : Jak Tiano
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Learning Xcode 8

By: Jak Tiano

Overview of this book

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a breakthrough in mobile computing and the birth of world-changing mobile apps. With a reputation as one of the most user-centric and developer-friendly platforms, iOS is the best place to launch your next great app idea. As the official tool to create iOS applications, Xcode is chock full of features aimed at making a developer’s job easier, faster, and more fun. This book will take you from complete novice to a published app developer, and covers every step in between. You’ll learn the basics of iOS application development by taking a guided tour through the Xcode software and Swift programming language, before putting that knowledge to use by building your first app called “Snippets.” Over the course of the book, you will continue to explore the many facets of iOS development in Xcode by adding new features to your app, integrating gestures and sensors, and even creating an Apple Watch companion app. You’ll also learn how to use the debugging tools, write unit tests, and optimize and distribute your app. By the time you make it to the end of this book, you will have successfully built and published your first iOS application.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Learning Xcode 8
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using CoreLocation.framework


With today's always on, always tracking social media apps, using and tracking the user's location has become a standard feature of many apps. In this section we're going to explore a new framework from the inside out, by jumping straight to coding. This framework is CoreLocation, which as the name might imply is going to give us the tools we need to access location services on a user's device.

We're going to be switching back to our Snippets application and adding the functionality for the user to attach their current location to a new snippet when they create it. You can continue to work from your old Snippets project, or if you had any problems with yours you can grab the final version from the resources folder of this chapter, because again, the folder will have the finished work from this chapter.

Note

Before we get started, make sure to link CoreLocation.framework to your Snippets project like we did in the test project earlier in the chapter.

Setting up CoreLocation...