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iOS 16 Programming for Beginners - Seventh Edition

By : Ahmad Sahar, Craig Clayton
Book Image

iOS 16 Programming for Beginners - Seventh Edition

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, which means that competent iOS developers are in high demand. iOS 16 Programming for Beginners, Seventh Edition, is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to iOS, covering the entire process of learning the Swift language, writing your own app, and publishing it on the App Store. This book follows a hands-on approach. With step-by-step tutorials to real-life examples and easy-to-understand explanations of complicated topics, each chapter will help you learn and practice the Swift language to build your apps and introduce exciting new technologies to incorporate into your apps. You'll learn how to publish iOS apps and work with new iOS 16 features such as Mac Catalyst, SwiftUI, Lock Screen widgets, WeatherKit, 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 (34 chapters)
1
Part I: Swift
11
Part II: Design
16
Part III: Code
26
Part IV: Features
32
Other Books You May Enjoy
33
Index

Implementing the Map screen

When you launch the app, the Explore screen is displayed. Tapping the Map button in the tab bar makes the Map screen appear, but it is blank. To make the Map screen display a map, you’ll add a map view to the view in the view controller scene for the Map screen. Follow these steps:

  1. Select the view controller scene for the Map screen:

Figure 12.43: Editor area showing view controller scene

  1. To make this scene display a map, click the Library button and type map in the filter field. A Map Kit View object appears as one of the results. Drag it to the view in the view controller scene:

Figure 12.44: Library with Map Kit View object selected

  1. The map should fill the whole screen. With the map view selected, click the Add New Constraints button:

Figure 12.45: View controller scene with map view selected

  1. Type 0 into all the Spacing to nearest neighbor fields and make sure...