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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

Creating model objects for the Photo Filter screen

To get the information from FilterData.plist into your app, you'll create a structure, FilterItem, that can store details about a filter, and a data manager class, FilterManager, that will load FilterData.plist and create an array of FilterItem instances. This is similar to the method used to load cuisine and location information into your app. Let's start by creating the FilterItem structure. Follow these steps:

  1. Right-click the Model folder in the PhotoFilter folder and select New File.
  2. iOS should already be selected. Choose Swift File and click Next.
  3. Name this file FilterItem. Click Create. The FilterItem file will appear in the Project navigator.
  4. Inside the FilterItem file, type the following code after the import statement to declare and define the FilterItem structure:
    struct FilterItem {
       let filter: String?
       let name: String?
       init(dict: [String...