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Mastering iOS 14 Programming - Fourth Edition

By : Mario Eguiluz Alebicto, Chris Barker, Donny Wals
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Mastering iOS 14 Programming - Fourth Edition

By: Mario Eguiluz Alebicto, Chris Barker, Donny Wals

Overview of this book

Mastering iOS 14 development isn’t a straightforward task, but this book can help you do just that. With the help of Swift 5.3, you’ll not only learn how to program for iOS 14 but also be able to write efficient, readable, and maintainable Swift code that reflects industry best practices. This updated fourth edition of the iOS 14 book will help you to build apps and get to grips with real-world app development flow. You’ll find detailed background information and practical examples that will help you get hands-on with using iOS 14's new features. The book also contains examples that highlight the language changes in Swift 5.3. As you advance through the chapters, you'll see how to apply Dark Mode to your app, understand lists and tables, and use animations effectively. You’ll then create your code using generics, protocols, and extensions and focus on using Core Data, before progressing to perform network calls and update your storage and UI with the help of sample projects. Toward the end, you'll make your apps smarter using machine learning, streamline the flow of your code with the Combine framework, and amaze users by using Vision framework and ARKit 4.0 features. By the end of this iOS development book, you’ll be able to build apps that harness advanced techniques and make the best use of iOS 14’s features.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned a lot about media in iOS. You saw how you can implement a video player with just a couple of lines of code. After that, you learned how to use AVFoundation directly to build an audio player that supports features such as stopping and resuming playback, skipping songs, and scrubbing forward or backward in a song. You even learned how you can keep playing audio when the app goes to the background or when the phone is set to silent mode. To apply the finishing touches to the audio player, you learned how you can use the MediaPlayer framework to show the currently playing file on the user's lock screen, and how to respond to control events that are sent to the app remotely.

After implementing media playback, you learned how you can build apps that help users to create media. You saw that UIImagePickerController provides a quick and simple interface to allow users to take a picture with the camera. You also learned how you can use AVFoundation...