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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By : Craig Clayton
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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners - Third Edition

By: Craig Clayton

Overview of this book

Want to build iOS 12 applications from scratch with the latest Swift 4.2 language and Xcode 10 by your side? Forget sifting through tutorials and blog posts; this book is a direct route to iOS development, taking you through the basics and showing you how to put principles into practice. Take advantage of this developer-friendly guide and start building applications that may just take the App Store by storm! If you’re already an experienced programmer, you can jump right in and learn the latest iOS 12 features. For beginners, this book starts by introducing you to iOS development as you learn Xcode and Swift. You'll also study advanced iOS design topics, such as gestures and animations, to give your app the edge. You’ll explore the latest Swift 4.2 and iOS 12 developments by incorporating new features, such as the latest in notifications, custom-UI notifications, maps, and the recent additions in Sirikit. The book will guide you in using TestFlight to quickly get to grips with everything you need to get your project on the App Store. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to start building your own cool iOS applications confidently.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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1
Getting Familiar with Xcode

App tour

The Let's Eat app that we are building is a restaurant reservation app that allows users to find restaurants in a specific area and create reservations from within the app (although our app does not book those reservations). I chose a restaurant reservation app for the lessons in this book because most of the new iOS 12 features work well together in such an app. The app covers a lot of different aspects, from maps to iMessage extensions. Let's take a look at the overall flow of the app, so that, as we build, you have a good idea of the direction we are heading in:

The Explore tab

When the app launches, you will see the Explore tab. This tab allows users to search for a particular cuisine and to set their...