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Mastering iOS 14 Programming - Fourth Edition

By : Mario Eguiluz Alebicto, Chris Barker, Donny Wals
Book Image

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, we've covered a lot about Dark Mode – not only from a programmatic perspective but also the theory behind the appearances and purpose of colors used within our apps.

We started by taking a look at how Xcode and iOS are set up for Dark Mode, learning about the environment overrides used in Xcode, and how we can even switch appearances in our storyboard while developing.

Next, we covered adaptive and semantic colors, and learned not only how these are used with Apple's default system colors but also how we can create dynamic and adaptive color sets ourselves.

Following on from what we learned about color sets, we applied this to images and harnesses the power of the assets catalog.

Finally, we covered some "great to know" topics, such as Dark Mode in SwiftUI, programmatically hailing appearances, and accessibility.

In the next chapter, we'll take a look at lists in iOS 14, covering everything you need to know about UITableViews and UICollectionViews.