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iOS Programming Cookbook

By : Hossam Ghareeb

3.5 (2)

iOS Programming Cookbook

3.5 (2)

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Swift Programming Language

Swift Programming Language

Introduction

Using closures to create self-contained code

Creating enumerations to write readable code

Working with protocols and delegates

Using extensions to extend classes functionality

Working with memory management and ARC

Using error handling

Using generics to write generic and reusable code

The Essentials

The Essentials

Introduction

Using UIView via code or interface builder to build your own custom views

Working with navigation controller and navigation bar

Working with stack views

Working with UICollectionView

Working with gestures like swipe, pan, rotation, and tap

Using 3D touch

Integrating with Messages App

Integrating with Messages App

Introduction

Integrating iMessage app with sticker pack

Integrating iMessage app with iMessage app

Working with Interface Builder

Working with Interface Builder

Introduction

Using storyboards

Working with Autolayout and constraints

Designing your interface builder for any size classes in one storyboard

Embedding view controllers using container view

Working with UITableView

Working with UITableView

Introduction

Working with scroll view

Using TableView sections, headers and footers

Using custom cells

Resizing table view cells dynamically

Editing table views

Animations and Graphics

Animations and Graphics

Introduction

Drawing text, images, lines, rectangles, and gradients

Animating shapes drawn with UIBezierPath

Animating UIViews

Multimedia

Multimedia

Introduction

Working with audio capabilities

Playing videos

Capturing photos and videos

Using filters with CoreImage

Concurrency

Concurrency

Introduction

Using Dispatch queues

Using Operation queues

Using Operation subclassing

Location Services

Location Services

Introduction

Detecting user location

Displaying pins in map view

Getting directions between locations

Working with geofencing

Security and Encryption

Security and Encryption

Introduction

Using Touch ID for user authentication

Working with Keychain

Encryption

Networking

Networking

Introduction

Using NSURLSession API for network connections

Parsing JSON data

Social sharing

Persisting Data with Core Data

Persisting Data with Core Data

Introduction

Designing data models

Reading and inserting records to Core Data

Updating and deleting records from Core Data

Notifications

Notifications

Introduction

Setting up Push Notifications

Setting up a local server to send Push Notifications

Working with interactive Push Notifications

Working with local notifications

App Search

App Search

Introduction

App indexing using NSUserActivity

App indexing using Core Spotlight APIs

Optimizing Performance

Optimizing Performance

Introduction

Memory management with ARC

Measuring performance

Measuring energy impact

On-demand resources

Working with stack views

UIStackView is one of the coolest features introduced in iOS 9.0 for developers. It was a hassle to arrange groups of views horizontally or vertically. You had to get your hands dirty with a lot of Auto Layout constraints to arrange these views properly. UIStackView makes arranging subviews horizontally or vertically easier without you worrying about Auto Layout. Although you don't need to use Auto Layout to arrange your views, as its UIStackview's job, you still need to use Auto Layout to define position and size of the stack view itself. If you're still not convinced about the magic that UIStackView does, you have to give it a shot.

How to do it

As usual, let's create a new Xcode project with Single View template and name it StackViews.
Open the storyboard file and select the view controller and change its size to iPhone 4-inch.
From Object Library, drag a Vertical stack view and add it as a subview.
Change its frame to (X = 20, Y = 20, Width = 280).
We need to add constraints...

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