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iOS 13 Programming for Beginners - Fourth Edition

By : Ahmad Sahar, Craig Clayton
Book Image

iOS 13 Programming for Beginners - Fourth Edition

By: Ahmad Sahar, Craig Clayton

Overview of this book

iOS 13 comes with features ranging from Dark Mode and Catalyst through to SwiftUI and Sign In with Apple. If you're a beginner and are looking to experiment and work with these features to create your own apps, then this updated fourth edition gets you off to a strong start. The book offers a comprehensive introduction for programmers who are new to iOS, covering the entire process of learning the Swift language, writing your own apps, and publishing them on the App Store. This edition is updated and revised to cover the new iOS 13 features along with Xcode 11 and Swift 5. The book starts with an introduction to the Swift programming language, and how to accomplish common programming tasks with it. You'll then start building the user interface (UI) of a complete real-world app, using the latest version of Xcode, and also implement the code for views, view controllers, data managers, and other aspects of mobile apps. The book will then help you apply the latest iOS 13 features to existing apps, along with introducing you to SwiftUI, a new way to design UIs. Finally, the book will take you through setting up testers for your app, and what you need to do to publish your app on the App Store. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with how to write and publish apps, and will be able to apply the skills you've gained to enhance your apps.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
1
Section 1: Swift
10
Section 2: Design
15
Section 3: Code
26
Section 4: Features

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the MVC design pattern and collection view controllers in detail. You then revisited the collection views used in the Explore and Restaurant List screens and learned how they work.

You should now understand the MVC design pattern, how to create a collection view controller, and how to use the collection view delegate and data source protocols. This will enable to you implement collection view controllers for your own apps.

Up to this point, you have set up the views and view controllers for the Explore and Restaurant List screens, but the Explore screen just displays a grid of cells, and the Restaurant List screen displays a single cell with a placeholder image.

In the next chapter, you're going to implement the model objects for the Explore screen so it can display a list of cuisines. To do this, you will read data from a file...