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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 custom title view


In order to add anything into our title view, we must first add a UIView. They are containers into which you can put other UI elements.

Adding a container

Perform the following steps for adding a container:

  1. In the filter field of your Utilities panel, type—uiview.

  2. You will see View at the bottom. Drag and drop this into your Explore navigation bar:

    Tip

    A way to confirm that you have dragged and dropped items into the proper place is to go to Outline view and see that the new item has been added under the correct label.

  3. You will see it highlighted when you are inside of it:

  4. With the View selected, go to the Utilities panel and select the Size Inspector.

  5. Now, drag the View box until its width is 118 and height is 33 in the Size Inspector:

  6. We have now created our container. Let's add our Stack View into this container.

Using Stack Views

Stack Views are really helpful to ensure that things are stacked either horizontally or vertically. We will use a Stack View inside of our...