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iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

By : Craig Clayton
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iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

By: Craig Clayton

Overview of this book

You want to build iOS applications for iPhone and iPad—but where do you start? Forget sifting through tutorials and blog posts, this is a direct route into iOS development, taking you through the basics and showing you how to put the principles into practice. With every update, iOS has become more and more developer-friendly, so take advantage of it and begin building applications that might just take the App Store by storm! Whether you’re an experienced programmer or a complete novice, this book guides you through every facet of iOS development. From Xcode and Swift—the building blocks of modern Apple development—and Playgrounds for beginners, one of the most popular features of the iOS development experience, you’ll quickly gain a solid foundation to begin venturing deeper into your development journey. For the experienced programmer, jump right in and learn the latest iOS 10 features. You’ll also learn the core elements of iOS design, from tables to tab bars, as well as more advanced topics such as gestures and animations that can give your app the edge. Find out how to manage databases, as well as integrating standard elements such as photos, GPS into your app. With further guidance on beta testing with TestFlight, you’ll quickly learn everything you need to get your project on the App Store!
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
iOS 10 Programming for Beginners
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Familiar with Xcode
Index

Creating and adding annotations


Now, we need to get our Map hooked up and start getting the annotations displaying on the Map. Then, we will customize our annotations to look like those in our design.

Creating our Map View Controller

We need to create our Map View Controller file and then connect it with our UIViewController and Map View in Storyboard. First, let's create this file:

  1. In the Navigator panel, right-click on the Controller folder in the Map folder and select New File.

  2. Inside of the Choose a template for your new file screen, select iOS at the top and then Cocoa Touch Class. Then, hit Next.

  3. Add the following into the options screen that appears:

  4. New File:

    • Class: MapViewController

    • Subclass…: UIViewController

    • Also create XIB: Unchecked

    • Language: Swift

  5. Click on Next and then Create.

  6. Under the import UIKit statement, add import MapKit.

  7. Update your class declaration to include the following subclass:

    class MapViewController: UIViewController, MKMapViewDelegate

Let's now connect this file with our...