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iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

By : Craig Clayton
Book Image

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

Starting with the basics


Let's begin by getting our app to send us basic notifications. Inside our restaurant details page, we have three buttons (9:30PM, 10:00PM, and 10:30PM) that currently do not do anything. We are going to update these buttons so that when you tap on one of them, it will create a restaurant reservation notification. If this were a real reservations app, we would want to store these reservations. When the reservation date and time neared, we would then post a notification to the user as a reminder. Doing all of that is out of the scope of this book, so we will just address creating a restaurant reservation notification.

Getting permission

Before we can send any notifications, we must get the user's permission. Therefore, open the AppDelegate.swift file and add the following method after the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions() method:

func checkNotifications() {
    UNUserNotificationCenter.current().requestAuthorization(options: [.alert, .sound, .badge]) { (isGranted, error...