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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 a data model


The data model is where you create your app's model objects and their properties. For our project, we only need to create one model object, called Review. Let's create a Managed Object Model now:

  1. In the Navigator panel, right-click on the Common folder and create a new group, called Core Data.

  2. Next, right-click this new Core Data folder and click New File.

  3. Inside the Choose a template for your new file screen, select iOS at the top, and then scroll down to the Core Data section and select Data Model. Then, hit Next:

  4. Name the file LetsEatModel and click Create.

  5. Click Add Entity in the screen that appears:

  6. Then, in the new screen, in the bottom-right corner, change the Editor Style to see the Graph Style:

  7. In the Graph Style, double click on Entity in the box in the middle of the graph to change our Entity's name:

  8. Update the text to say Review and then hit Enter.

Now that we have our first Entity created, let's add our first attribute:

  1. Select our Review Entity and click the Add...