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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 14: Getting Data into Collection Views

In the previous chapter, you learned about the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern and about collection views. You've also revisited the Explore and Restaurant List screens, and you have seen how the collection views in both screens work. At this point, though, both screens just display cells that do not contain any data. As shown in the app tour in Chapter 9, Setting Up the User Interface, the Explore screen should display a list of cuisines, and the Restaurant List screen should display a list of restaurants.

In this chapter, you're going to implement the model objects for the Explore screen to make it display a list of cuisines. You'll start by learning about model objects that you will use. Next, you'll learn about property lists, and see how they are used to store cuisine data, and you'll create a Swift structure that can store cuisine instances. After that, you'll create a data manager class...