You're reading from iOS 17 Programming for Beginners - Eighth Edition

Product type Book

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837630561

Pages 604 pages

Edition 8th Edition

Languages

Swift

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Ahmad Sahar

Table of Contents (34) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Swift

2. Exploring Xcode

3. Simple Values and Types

4. Conditionals and Optionals

5. Range Operators and Loops

6. Collection Types

7. Functions and Closures

8. Classes, Structures, and Enumerations

9. Protocols, Extensions, and Error Handling

10. Swift Concurrency

11. Part 2: Design

12. Setting Up the User Interface

13. Building Your User Interface

14. Finishing Up Your User Interface

15. Modifying App Screens

16. Part 3: Code

17. Getting Started with MVC and Table Views

18. Getting Data into Table Views

19. Passing Data between View Controllers

20. Getting Started with Core Location and MapKit

21. Getting Started with JSON Files

22. Getting Started with Custom Views

23. Getting Started with the Camera and Photo Library

24. Getting Started with Search

25. Getting Started with Collection Views

26. Part 4: Features

27. Getting Started with SwiftData

28. Getting Started with SwiftUI

29. Getting Started with Widgets

30. Getting Started with visionOS

31. Testing and Submitting Your App to the App Store

32. Other Books You May Enjoy

33. Index

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Qr code Description automatically generated

Now that you have had a short tour of Xcode in the previous chapter, let's look at the Swift programming language, which you will use to write your app.First, you'll explore Swift playgrounds, an interactive environment where you can type in Swift code and have the results displayed immediately. Next, you'll study how Swift represents and stores various types of data. After that, you'll look at some cool Swift features such as type inference and type safety, which help you to write code more concisely and avoid common errors. Finally, you'll learn how to perform common operations on data and how to print messages to the Debug area to help you troubleshoot issues.By the end of this chapter, you should be able to write simple programs that can store and process letters and numbers.The following topics will be covered: