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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 took the solid core of our Contacts app and decorated it with animations and vibrancy. We started by learning the basics of animation and how a couple of lines of code could make a massive difference. We then took this a step further and refactored more complex code to make it not only maintainable but also easier to understand.

UIKit offers much more than just fancy animations. Looking at dynamics, we saw how we could apply physics to even a UIView to give us an app with a truly awesome experience.

Finally, we looked at transitions, something that is very powerful in iOS development, yet something we take so easily for granted. We created a custom class that allowed us to create our very own modal transition.

In the next chapter, we're going to delve a little deeper into the Swift programming language and learn all about Swift's type system.