iOS Apprentice (Eighth Edition): Beginning iOS Development with Swift and UIKit

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	About the Authors
	About the Editor
	About the Artist
Book Source Code & Forums
About the Cover
Chapter 1: Introduction
	About this book
	Is this book right for you?
	iOS 13 and later only
	What you need
	Xcode
	What’s ahead: An overview
	The language of the computer
Chapter 2: Getting Started with SwiftUI
	SwiftUI and UIKit
	The Bullseye game
	Getting started
	Object-oriented programming
	Adding interactivity
	State and SwiftUI
	Dealing with error messages
	The anatomy of your app
Chapter 3: Building User Interfaces
	Portrait vs. landscape
	Adding the other views
	Solving the mystery of the stuck slider
	Data types
	Making the slider less annoyingly precise
	Key points
Chapter 4: Swift Basics
	Generating and displaying the target value
	Calculating and displaying the points scored
	Writing your own methods
	Improving the code
	Key points
Chapter 5: A Fully Working Game
	Improving the pointsForCurrentRound() algorithm
	What’s the score?
	One more round...
	Key points
Chapter 6: Refactoring
	Improvements
	More refactoring
	Starting over
	Making the code less self-ish
	A couple more enhancements
	Key points
Chapter 7: The New Look
	Landscape orientation revisited
	Spicing up the graphics
	The “About” screen
Chapter 8: The Final App
	Adding a title to the navigation bar
	Including animation
	Adding an icon
	Display name
	Running the app on a device
	The end… or the beginning?
Chapter 9: List Views
	NavigationView and List views
	Arrays
	Loops
	Deleting items from the list
	Moving list items
	Key points
Chapter 10: A “Checkable” List
	Creating checklist item objects
	A quick check before moving on
	Toggling checklist items
	Key points
Chapter 11: The App Structure
	Design patterns: MVC and MVVM
	Renaming the view
	Adding a file for the model
	Adding a file for the ViewModel
	Structs and classes
	Connecting the view to the ViewModel
	What happens when you launch an app?
	Key points
Chapter 12: Adding Items to the List
	Setting up the user interface
	Adding a new item to the list
	Dealing with a SwiftUI bug
	Improving the user interface
	Key points
Chapter 13: Editing Checklist Items
	Changing how the user changes checklist items
	Giving checklist rows their own view
	@Binding properties
	Introducing extensions
	Updating EditChecklistItemView
	Key points
Chapter 14: Saving and Loading
	Data persistence
	The Documents directory
	Saving checklist items
	Loading the file
	Next steps
Chapter 15: UIKit and The One-Button App
	The Bullseye game
	The one-button app
	The anatomy of an app
Chapter 16: Slider & Labels
	Portrait vs. landscape
	Understanding objects, data and methods
	Adding the other controls
Chapter 17: Outlets
	Improving the slider
	Generating the random number
	Adding rounds to the game
	Displaying the target value
	Calculating the points scored
	Showing the total score
	Displaying the score
	One more round...
Chapter 18: Polish
	Tweaks
	The alert
	Start over
Chapter 19: The New Look
	Landscape orientation revisited
	Spicing up the graphics
	The About screen
Chapter 20: Table Views
	Table views and navigation controllers
	Adding a table view
	The table view delegates
Chapter 21: The Data Model
	Model-View-Controller
	The data model
Chapter 22: Navigation Controllers
	Navigation controller
	Deleting rows
	Saving and loading high scores
	Adding new high scores
	The Edit High Score screen
Chapter 23: Edit High Score Screen
	Static table cells
	Working with the text field
	Polishing it up
Chapter 24: Delegates & Protocols
	Updating HighScoreItem
Chapter 25: The Final App
	Supporting different screen sizes
	Crossfade
	UIKit knowledge unlocked!
Chapter 26: Swift Review
	Variables, constants and types
	Methods and functions
	Making decisions
	Loops
	Objects
	Protocols
Chapter 27: Get Location Data
	Get GPS coordinates
	Core Location
	Displaying coordinates
Chapter 28: Use Location Data
	Handling GPS errors
	Improving GPS results
	Reverse geocoding
	Testing on device
Chapter 29: Objects vs. Classes
	Classes
	Inheritance
	Overriding methods
	Casts
Chapter 30: The Tag Location Screen
	The screen
	The new view controller
	Making the cells
	Displaying location info
	The category picker
Chapter 31: Adding Polish
	Improving the user experience
	The HUD
	Handling the navigation
Chapter 32: Saving Locations
	Core Data overview
	Adding Core Data
	The data store
	Passing the context
	Browsing the data
	Saving the locations
	Handling Core Data errors
Chapter 33: The Locations Tab
	The Locations tab
	Creating a custom table view cell subclass
	Editing locations
	Using NSFetchedResultsController
	Deleting locations
	Table view sections
Chapter 34: Maps
	Adding a map view
	Making your own pins
Chapter 35: Image Picker
	Adding an image picker
	Showing the image
	UI improvements
	Saving the image
	Editing the image
	Thumbnails
Chapter 36: Polishing the App
	Converting placemarks to strings
	Back to black
	The map screen
	Fixing the table views
	Polishing the main screen
	Making some noise
	The icon and launch images
	Where to go from here?
Chapter 37: Search Bar
	Creating the project
	Creating the UI
	Doing fake searches
	UI Improvements
	Creating the data model
	No results found
Chapter 38: Custom Table Cells
	Custom table cells and nibs
	Changing the look of the app
	Tagging commits
	The debugger
Chapter 39: Networking
	Query the iTunes web service
	Sending an HTTP request
	Parsing JSON
	Working with the JSON results
	Sorting the search results
Chapter 40: Asynchronous Networking
	Extreme synchronous networking
	The activity indicator
	Making it asynchronous
Chapter 41: URLSession
	Branching it
	Putting URLSession into action
	Cancelling operations
	Searching different categories
	Downloading the artwork
	Merge the branch
Chapter 42: The Detail Pop-Up
	The new view controller
	Adding the rest of the controls
	Showing data in the pop-up
Chapter 43: Polish the Pop-up
	Gradients in the background
	Animation!
Chapter 44: Landscape
	The landscape view controller
	Fixing issues
	Adding a scroll view
	Adding result buttons
	Paging
	Download the artwork
Chapter 45: Refactoring
	Refactoring the search
	Improving the categories
	Enums with associated values
	Spin me right round
	Nothing found
	The Detail pop-up
Chapter 46: Internationalization
	Adding a new language
	Localizing on-screen text
	InfoPlist.strings
	Regional settings
Chapter 47: The iPad
	Universal apps
	The split view controller
	Improving the detail pane
	Size classes in the storyboard
	Your own popover
	Sending e-mail from the app
	Landscape on iPhone Plus
	Dark mode support
Chapter 48: Distributing the App
	Join the Apple Developer program
	Beta testing
	Submit for review
	The end
Conclusion