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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

Introducing Core Data

Core Data is Apple’s mechanism for saving app data to your device. It provides persistence, undo/redo, background tasks, view synchronization, versioning, and migration. You can define your data types and relationships using Xcode’s data model editor, and Core Data will generate class definitions for your data types automatically. Core Data can then create and manage object instances based on the class definitions.

You can learn more about Core Data at this link: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/coredata

Core Data provides a set of classes collectively known as the Core Data stack to manage object instances, which are as follows:

  • NSManagedObjectModel

Describes your app’s types, including their properties and relationships

  • NSManagedObject

A class used to implement instances of your app’s types based on data from the NSManagedObjectModel.

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