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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

Implementing the Restaurant List screen

As can be seen in the app tour in Chapter 9, Setting Up the User Interface, once you've set a location and tapped a cuisine in the Explore screen, the Restaurant List screen will appear, showing a list of restaurants.

To implement the Restaurant List screen, you'll add a new view controller scene to your storyboard and add a collection view to the view in this scene. You'll also add a new Cocoa Touch Class file, declare and define the RestaurantListViewController class, make it the view controller for the view controller scene's view, and connect the outlets of the collection view to this class. The steps are very similar to the one you followed in the previous chapter for the ExploreViewController class.

Let's start by adding the new view controller scene. Follow these steps:

  1. In the Main storyboard file, move the navigation controller scene and view controller scene that you added in the previous chapter...