iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

Craig Clayton

• Editore: Packt Publishing
• Anno: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781786464507
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Computer Science
• Categoria: Programming

Begin your iOS mobile application development journey with this accessible, practical guide

About This Book

• Use Swift 3 and latest iOS 10 features to build awesome apps for iPhone and iPad
• Explore and use a wide range of Apple development tools to become a confident iOS developer
• From prototype to App Store—find out how to build an app from start to finish!

Who This Book Is For

This book is for beginners who want to be able to create iOS applications. If you have some programming experience, this book is a great way to get a full understanding of how to create an iOS application from scratch and submit it to the App Store. You do not need any knowledge of Swift or any prior programming experience.

What You Will Learn

• Get to grips with Swift 3 and Xcode, the building blocks of Apple development
• Get to know the fundamentals of Swift, including variables, constants, and control flow
• Discover the distinctive design principles that define the iOS user experience
• See how to prototype your app with Swift's Playgrounds feature
• Build a responsive UI that looks great on a range of devices
• Find out how to use CoreLocation to add location services to your app
• Add push notifications to your app
• Make your app able to be used on both iPhone and iPad

In Detail

You want to build iOS applications for iPhone and iPad—but where do you start? Forget sifting through tutorials and blog posts, this is a direct route into iOS development, taking you through the basics and showing you how to put the principles into practice. With every update, iOS has become more and more developer-friendly, so take advantage of it and begin building applications that might just take the App Store by storm!

Whether you're an experienced programmer or a complete novice, this book guides you through every facet of iOS development. From Xcode and Swift—the building blocks of modern Apple development—and Playgrounds for beginners, one of the most popular features of the iOS development experience, you'll quickly gain a solid foundation to begin venturing deeper into your development journey. For the experienced programmer, jump right in and learn the latest iOS 10 features.

You'll also learn the core elements of iOS design, from tables to tab bars, as well as more advanced topics such as gestures and animations that can give your app the edge. Find out how to manage databases, as well as integrating standard elements such as photos, GPS into your app. With further guidance on beta testing with TestFlight, you'll quickly learn everything you need to get your project on the App Store!

Style and approach

Created for anyone that wants to build their first iOS application, this book offers practical, actionable guidance through iOS development. Combining engaging visuals with accessible, step-by-step instructiona and explanation, this book will not only develop the your understanding, but also show you how to put your knowledge to work.

iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

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Table of Contents

iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Customer Feedback

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading theexample code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Familiar with Xcode

Getting started

The Xcode interface

Navigator panel

Standard editor

Utilities panel

Debug panel

Toolbar

Generic iOS Device

iOS device

Window Pane Controls

Summary

2. Building a Foundation with Swift

Playgrounds – an interactive coding environment

Data types – where it all starts

String

Integer data type

Floating-point numbers

Booleans

Variables and constants – where data is held

Creating a variable with a String

Creating a variable with an Integer (Int)

Debug and print() – detecting your bugs

Adding floating-point numbers

Creating a Boolean

Hungarian notation

Why constants versus variables?

Comments – leaving yourself notes or reminders

Type safety and type inference

Concatenating strings

String interpolation

Operations with our Integers

Increment and decrement

Comparison operators

If-Statements – having fun with logic statements

Optionals and Optional Bindings

Why optionals?

Functions

Let's Work

Summary

3. Digging Deeper

Creating a Playground project

Ranges

Closed Range

Half closed Range

Control flow

The for…in loop

The while loop

The repeat…while loop

Summary

4. Digging into Collections

Arrays

Creating an empty array

Creating an array with initial values

Creating a mutable array

Adding items to an array

Checking the number of elements in an array

Checking for an empty array

Retrieving a value from an array

Iterating over an array

Removing items from an array

Dictionaries

Creating a dictionary

Adding and updating dictionary elements

Accessing an item in a dictionary

Iterating over dictionary values

Iterating over dictionary keys

Iterating over dictionary keys and values

Checking the number of items in a dictionary

Removing Items from a dictionary

Sets

Creating an empty set

Creating a set with an array literal

Creating a mutable set

Adding items into a set

Checking if a set contains an item

Iterating over a set

Intersecting two sets

Joining two sets

Removing items from a Set

Summary

5. Starting the UI Setup

Useful terms

View Controller

Table View Controller

Collection View Controller

Navigation Controller

Tab Bar Controller

Storyboard

Segue

Auto layout

Model View Controller (MVC)

App Tour

Explore tab

Locations

Restaurant listings

Restaurant detail

Map tab

Project setup

Creating a new project

Creating our files

Storyboard setup

Adding our App assets

Storyboards

Creating our launch screen

Adding a Navigation Controller

Creating a custom title view

Adding a container

Using Stack Views

Adding a Custom Label and an Arrow to Our Custom Title View

Summary

6. Setting Up UI

Design clean up

Adding a Clear Background to the Custom Title View

Updating the UIStackView

Updating our Arrow

Updating our Label

Adding a Button

Collection View

Adding a Modal

Map Kit View

Fixing the Crash

Refactoring the Storyboard

Creating a New Storyboard for the Explore Tab

Creating a New Storyboard for the Map Tab

Folder Setup

Organizing folders

Setting up Global Settings

Breaking Down our App Delegate

Summary

7. Getting Started with the Grid

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