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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)

Animating UIViews

In the previous section, we saw how animation works with CoreAnimation. iOS provides us with another mechanism for animation, which is the animation with UIKit framework. Animating UIViews can be done by animating their layers with CoreAnimation or animating the view itself using the animation APIs provided in the UIKit framework, especially in the UIView class.

How to do it...

To animate UIViews, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new Xcode project with the Master-Details template and name it UIViewAnimation.
  2. The project will be created with the navigation controller template, where you will find a master screen where you can add new cells representing the current time and you will see a details screen...