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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

Updating the Explore screen to work with Dark Mode

You have updated the Launch screen to make its color change when the app is launched in Dark Mode, but when the Explore screen appears, the cuisine names are missing, as shown in the following screenshot:

This is because the exploreCell label color is set to white. You will change the label color in the storyboard. Do the following steps:

  1. Click Main.storyboard in the Project navigator. Choose exploreCell in the document outline and click the Attributes inspector. Note that the Background is White Color, so exploreCell will have a white background regardless of mode, as follows:
  1. You'll need to change the color to a dynamic color, which changes automatically depending on mode. Set Background to Default, as follows:

  1. Build and run the app. Now, the cuisine names appear in the Explore Screen, as can be seen in the following...