UIKit Apprentice : Beginning iOS Development with Swift

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What You Need
Book Source Code & Forums
	About the Authors
Acknowledgments
	Content Development
Chapter 1: Introduction
	About this book
	Who this book is for
	iOS 15 and later only
	What you need
	Xcode
	What’s ahead: an overview
Chapter 2: The One-Button App
	The Bull’s Eye game
	The one-button app
	UIKit
Chapter 3: Slider & Labels
	Portrait vs. landscape
	Understanding objects, data and methods
	Adding the other controls
Chapter 4: Outlets
	Improve the slider
	Generate the random number
	Adding rounds to the game
	Displaying the target value
Chapter 5: Rounds & Score
	Getting the difference
	Simplifying the algorithm
	What’s the score?
	Showing the total score
	Displaying the score
	One more round…
Chapter 6: Polish
	Tweaks
	The alert
	Start over
Chapter 7: The New Look
	Landscape orientation revisited
	Spice up the graphics
	The About screen
Chapter 8: The Final App
	Support different screen sizes
	Crossfade
	The icon
	Display name
	Run on device
	The end… or the beginning?
Chapter 9: Table Views
	Table views and navigation controllers
	The Checklists app design
	Add a table view
	The table view delegates
Chapter 10: The Data Model
	Model-View-Controller
	The data model
	Clean up the code
Chapter 11: Navigation Controllers
	Navigation controller
	Delete rows
	The Add Item screen
Chapter 12: Add Item Screen
	Static table cells
	Read from the text field
	Polish it up
Chapter 13: Delegates & Protocols
	Add new ChecklistItems
Chapter 14: Edit Items
	Edit items
	Refactor the code
	One more thing
Chapter 15: Saving & Loading
	The need for data persistence
	The documents folder
	Save checklist items
	Load the file
	What next?
Chapter 16: Lists
	The All Lists view controller
	The All Lists UI
	View the checklists
	Manage checklists
	Are you still with me?
Chapter 17: Improved Data Model
	The new data model
	Fake it ‘til you make it
	Do saves differently
	Improve the data model
Chapter 18: User Defaults
	Remember the last open list
	Defensive programming
	The first-run experience
Chapter 19: UI Improvements
	Show counts
	Sort the lists
	Add icons
	Make the app look good
Chapter 20: Local Notifications
	Try it out
	Set a due date
	Due date UI
	Schedule local notifications
	That’s a wrap!
Chapter 21: Swift Review
	Variables, constants and types
	Methods and functions
	Making decisions
	Loops
	Objects
	Protocols
Chapter 22: Get Location Data
	Get GPS coordinates
	Core Location
	Display coordinates
Chapter 23: Use Location Data
	Handle GPS errors
	Improve GPS results
	Reverse geocoding
	Testing on device
Chapter 24: Objects vs. Classes
	Classes
	Inheritance
	Overriding methods
	Casts
Chapter 25: The Tag Location Screen
	The screen
	The new view controller
	Make the cells
	Display location info
	The category picker
Chapter 26: Adding Polish
	Improve the user experience
	The HUD
	Handle the navigation
Chapter 27: Saving Locations
	Core Data overview
	Using Core Data
	The data store
	Pass the context
	Browse the data
	Save the locations
	Handle Core Data errors
Chapter 28: The Locations Tab
	The Locations tab
	Create a custom table view cell subclass
	Edit locations
	Use NSFetchedResultsController
	Delete locations
	Table view sections
Chapter 29: Maps
	Add a map view
	Make your own pins
Chapter 30: Image Picker
	Add an image picker
	Show the image
	UI improvements
	Save the image
	Edit the image
	Thumbnails
Chapter 31: Polishing the App
	Convert placemarks to strings
	Back to black
	The map screen
	UI updates to screens
	Polish the main screen
	Make some noise
	The icon and launch images
	The end
Chapter 32: Search Bar
	Create the project
	Create the UI
	Do fake searches
	UI Improvements
	Create the data model
	No results found
Chapter 33: Custom Table Cells
	Custom table cells and nibs
	Change the look of the app
	Tag commits
	The debugger
Chapter 34: Networking
	Query the iTunes web service
	Send an HTTP(S) request
	Parse JSON
	Work with the JSON results
	Sort the search results
Chapter 35: Asynchronous Networking
	Extreme synchronous networking
	The activity indicator
	Make it asynchronous
Chapter 36: URLSession
	Branch it
	Put URLSession into action
	Cancel operations
	Search different categories
	Download the artwork
	Merge the branch
Chapter 37: The Detail Pop-up
	The new view controller
	Add the rest of the controls
	Show data in the pop-up
Chapter 38: Polish the Pop-up
	Dynamic Type
	Gradients in the background
	Animation!
Chapter 39: Landscape
	The landscape view controller
	Fix issues
	Add a scroll view
	Add result buttons
	Paging
	Download the artwork
Chapter 40: Refactoring
	Refactor the search
	Improve the categories
	Enums with associated values
	Spin me right round
	Nothing found
	The Detail pop-up
Chapter 41: Internationalization
	Add a new language
	Localize on-screen text
	InfoPlist.strings
	Regional settings
Chapter 42: The iPad
	Deployment platforms
	The split view controller
	Improve the secondary pane
	Fix the Detail pop-up for iPhone
	Size classes in the storyboard
	Your own popover
	Send e-mail from the app
	Landscape on bigger iPhones
Chapter 43: Distributing the App
	Join the Apple Developer program
	Beta testing
	Submit for review
	The end
Conclusion