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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

Configuring data source methods for the collection view

When your app is running, an instance of the ExploreViewController class acts as the view controller for the Explore screen. It is responsible for loading and displaying all the views in that screen, including the collection view you added earlier. The collection view needs to know how many collection view cells to display and what to display in each cell. Normally, the view controller is responsible for providing this information. Apple has already created a protocol, UICollectionViewDataSource, for this purpose. All you need to do is connect the collection view's dataSource outlet to the ExploreViewController class and implement the required methods of this protocol.

The collection view also needs to know what to do if the user taps on a collection view cell. Again, the view controller for the collection view is responsible, and Apple has created the UICollectionViewDelegate protocol for this purpose. You will connect...