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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 Map screen

When you launch the app, the Explore screen is displayed. Tapping the Map button in the tab bar makes the Map screen appear, but it is blank. To make the Map screen display a map, you'll add a map view to the view in the view controller scene for the Map screen. Follow these steps:

  1. Select the view controller scene for the Map screen:

Figure 11.43: Editing area showing view controller scene

  1. To make this scene display a map, click the Library button and type map in the filter field. A Map Kit View object appears as one of the results. Drag it to the view in the view controller scene:

Figure 11.44: Library with Map Kit View object selected

  1. The map should fill the whole screen. With the map view selected, click the Add New Constraints button:

Figure 11.45: View controller scene with map view selected

  1. Type 0 into all the Spacing to nearest neighbor...