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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

Adding a collection view to the Explore screen

A collection view is an instance of the UICollectionView class. Like a spreadsheet program, it displays a grid of cells. Each cell in a collection view is a collection view cell, which is an instance of the UICollectionViewCell class. You'll start by adding a collection view to the view controller scene for the Explore screen in the Main storyboard file, then you'll add Auto Layout constraints to make it fill the screen.

Important Information

For more information on Auto Layout and how to use it, go to https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/.

Open the LetsEat project you created in the previous chapter and run the app to make sure everything still works as it should, then follow these steps:

  1. Click the Main storyboard file in the Project navigator, and click the Library button:

Figure 10.1: Toolbar with the Library button shown...