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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

Adding favorites


A nice feature for our app would be to use 3D Touch to allow users to add favorites within our Restaurant List View. We already have the heart in our Restaurant Detail page. Therefore, let's add 3D Touch to the heart to add favorites. This is how we want it to look when we are finished:

First thing we need to do is add a new model object so that we can save our restaurant favorites to Core Data.

Creating a new model object

  1. In the Navigator panel, open the LetsEatModel.xcdatamodeld file that can be found in the Core Data folder in the Common folder.

  2. Make sure that you have the Graph Style selected:

  3. Click on the + button for Add Entity and, then, double-click on the text, Entity, and update it to Favorite:

  4. Next, ensure that the Favorite Entity is selected and click on the + button for Add Attribute:

  5. In the box, in the center of the screen, under Attributes, you should now see the word attribute. Double-click on attribute and change it to restaurantID:

  6. Next, select the Favorite Entity...