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iOS 15 Programming for Beginners - Sixth Edition

By : Ahmad Sahar, Craig Clayton
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Book Image

iOS 15 Programming for Beginners - Sixth Edition

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By: Ahmad Sahar, Craig Clayton

Overview of this book

With almost 2 million apps on the App Store, iOS mobile apps continue to be incredibly popular. Anyone can reach millions of customers around the world by publishing their apps on the App Store. iOS 15 Programming for Beginners is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to iOS. It covers the entire process of learning the Swift language, writing your own app, and publishing it on the App Store. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will help you get well-versed with the Swift language to build your apps and introduce exciting new technologies that you can incorporate into your apps. You'll learn how to publish iOS apps and work with Mac Catalyst, SharePlay, SwiftUI, Swift concurrency, and much more. By the end of this iOS development book, you'll have the knowledge and skills to write and publish interesting apps, and more importantly, to use the online resources available to enhance your app development journey.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
1
Part 1: Swift
10
Part 2: Design
15
Part 3: Code
25
Part 4: Features

Chapter 9: Setting Up the User Interface

In Part 1 of this book, you studied about the Swift language and how it works. Now that you have a good working knowledge of the language, you can learn how to develop an iOS application. In this part, you will build the user interface of a restaurant reservation app, Let's Eat. You will use Xcode's Interface Builder for this, and coding will be kept to a minimum.

You'll start this chapter by learning useful terms used in iOS app development, which are used extensively throughout this book. Next, you will tour the screens used in the Let's Eat app and learn how the user would use the app. Finally, you will begin recreating the app's UI with Interface Builder, starting with the tab bar, which allows the user to select between the Explore and Map screens. You'll add navigation bars to the top of both screens. You'll also learn how to configure the Launch screen that is displayed when the app is started and...