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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

Summary

In this chapter, you added a property list file, ExploreData.plist, to your project. You implemented the ExploreItem structure, the model objects for the Explore screen. You created a data manager class, ExploreDataManager, to read data from ExploreData.plist, put the data into an array of ExploreItem instances, and provide it to ExploreViewController. You created a class for the exploreCell collection view cell. Finally, you configured the data source methods in the ExploreViewController class to use data from the array of ExploreItem instances to populate the collection view, and the Explore screen now displays a list of cuisines. Great job!

You now know how to provide data to an app using .plist files, create model objects, create data manager classes that load .plist files into model objects, configure collection views to display data that has been loaded, and configure view controllers for collection views. This will be useful should you wish to create your own apps...