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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

Updating the app using async/await

As you have seen previously, the app is unresponsive when the makeToast() and poachEgg() methods are running. To resolve this, you will use async/await in the app.

Writing the async keyword in the method declaration indicates that the method is asynchronous. This is what it looks like:

func methodName() async -> returnType {

Writing the await keyword in front of a method call marks a point where execution may be suspended, thus allowing other operations to run. This is what it looks like:

await methodName()

Important Information

You can watch Apple's WWDC2021 video discussing async/await at https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10132/.

You will modify your app to use async/await. This will enable it to suspend the makeToast() and poachEgg() methods to process button taps and update the user interface, then resume execution of both methods afterward. Follow these steps:

  1. Modify the makeToast() and poachEgg...