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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

Organizing your code

As your programs become more complex, you will use extensions (covered in Chapter 8, Protocols, Extensions, and Error Handling) to organize your code. Extensions can help you to make code more readable and avoid clutter.

You will organize four classes: ExploreViewController, RestaurantListViewController, LocationViewController, and MapViewController. You will segregate blocks of related code using extensions. Let's begin with the ExploreViewController class in the next section.

Refactoring the ExploreViewController class

You will divide the code in the ExploreViewController file into distinct sections using extensions. Follow these steps:

  1. Click the ExploreViewController file in the Project navigator. After the final curly brace, add the following:
    // MARK: Private Extension
    private extension ExploreViewController {
       // code goes here
    }
    // MARK: UICollectionViewDataSource
    extension ExploreViewController: 
    UICollectionViewDataSource...