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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

Implementing Core Data components for your app

Before you implement Core Data components for your app, let's think about what you need to do to save reviews or photos.

Imagine you're saving a review or photo using Microsoft Word. You first create a new Word document template with the relevant fields for a review or photo. You then create new Word documents based on the templates and fill in the data. You make whatever changes are necessary, perhaps changing the text of the review, or changing the effect you're applying to the photo. At this point, you have not saved the file yet. When you are happy with your document, you save it to the hard disk of your computer. The next time you want to view your review or photo, you search your hard disk for the relevant document and double-click it to open it in Word so you can see it once more.

Now that you have an idea of...