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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

Understanding and creating annotations

In Chapter 11, Finishing Up Your User Interface, you added a map view to the Map screen. A map view is an instance of the MKMapView class. You can see what it looks like in the Apple Maps app.

Important Information

To learn more about MKMapView, see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/mkmapview.

When you build and run your app, you will see a map on the screen. The part of the map that is visible onscreen can be specified by setting the region property of the map.

Important Information

To learn more about regions and how to make them, see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkit/mkmapview/1452709-region.

Pins on the Map screen are used to mark specific locations, and are instances of the MKAnnotationView class. To add a pin to a map view, you need an object that conforms to the MKAnnotation protocol. This protocol allows you to associate an object with a specific map location.

Important Information

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