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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

Understanding protocols

Protocols are like blueprints that determine what properties or methods an object should have. After you’ve declared a protocol, classes, structures, and enumerations can adopt this protocol, and provide their own implementation for the required properties and methods.

Here’s what a protocol declaration looks like:

protocol ProtocolName {
   var readWriteProperty1 {get set}
   var readOnlyProperty2 {get}
   methodName1()
   methodName2()
}

Just like classes and structures, protocol names start with an uppercase letter. Properties need to be declared using the var keyword. You use {get set} if you want a property that can be read from or written to, and {get} if you want a read-only property. Note that you just specify property and method names; the implementation is done within the adopting class, structure, or enumeration.

For more information on protocols, visit: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide...