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iOS Programming Cookbook

By : Hossam Ghareeb
Book Image

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)

Using custom cells

UITableView provides us with native styles for the UITableViewCell, like the basic one that we saw in the previous demo. Another style you can use is the Detailed style, which displays a details label at the left or right of the cell. Another one, that is the Subtitle style, displays a subtitle label below the main label. You can still add your customization to table view cells, as the native ones are rarely used, especially in apps published in the App Store.

Getting ready

We will use the demo we created in the previous section as a starting point to build the demo of this section. We will add custom cells and use them instead of the basic ones.

In the demo, we will use some Assets that you can find in...