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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)

Working with UITableView

In this section, we'll start by taking a look at UITableView, one of the most – if not the most – common ways of displaying data in a list in iOS.

Setting up the project

Every time you start a new project in Xcode, you have the option to pick a template for your app. Every template contains a small amount of code or some boilerplate code to get you started. In most cases, a basic layout will even be set up for you. Throughout this book, you should default to using the Single View App template. Don't be fooled by its name; you can add as many views to your app as you would like. This template just provides you with one view to start with.

In this chapter, you will create an app that is called My Contacts. This app displays your user's contacts list in a UITableView component that you will set up. Let's create a project for this app right now.

In the menu bar, do the following:

  1. Select File | New | Project...