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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

Summary

In this chapter, you connected outlets in the RestaurantDetailViewController class to the Restaurant Detail screen. Next, you added methods to viewDidLoad() to populate the table view when the Restaurant Detail screen is displayed. Finally, you passed the appropriate RestaurantItem instance from the RestaurantListViewController and MapViewController instances to the RestaurantDetailViewController instance, enabling it to display data from that RestaurantItem instance on the Restaurant Detail screen.

By doing this, you have learned how to make table views with static cells display data, as well as how to create a custom map image, which you can now implement in your own apps.

Congratulations! All the screens in your app now display data. However, if you look at the Restaurant Detail screen, there are no ratings, reviews, or photos for the restaurant, and no way to add them. You will implement this starting with the next chapter, where you’ll create a custom control...