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iOS Programming Cookbook

By : Hossam Ghareeb
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iOS Programming Cookbook

By: Hossam Ghareeb

Overview of this book

Do you want to understand all the facets of iOS programming and build complex iOS apps? Then you have come to the right place. This problem-solution guide will help you to eliminate expensive learning curves and focus on specific issues to make you proficient at tasks and the speed-up time involved. Beginning with some advanced UI components such as Stack Views and UICollectionView, you will gradually move on to building an interface efficiently. You will work through adding gesture recognizer and touch elements on table cells for custom actions. You will work with the Photos framework to access and manipulate photos. You will then prepare your app for multitasking and write responsive and highly efficient apps. Next, you will integrate maps and core location services while making your app more secure through various encryption methods. Finally, you will dive deep into the advanced techniques of implementing notifications while working with memory management and optimizing the performance of your apps. By the end of the book, you will master most of the latest iOS 10 frameworks.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Setting up a local server to send Push Notifications

In the previous section, we saw how to set up push notifications from the Apple developer account and in the Xcode project. Then, we wrote the code in AppDelegate to register for push notifications. Everything is good, but it will be nothing if we don't know how to send push notifications to the device. In this section, we will set up a local server that will send push notifications to the device using the APNS certificate and the device token.

Getting ready

To send push notification easily, we will introduce a good and easy tool that you can set up in your local machine. Check the following tool in GitHub, which is called Houston: https://github.com/nomad/houston

Houston...