You're reading from iOS 17 Programming for Beginners Unlock the world of iOS development with Swift 5.9, Xcode 15, and iOS 17 – your path to App Store success

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837630561

Length 604 pages

Edition 8th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Ian Lockett

Ahmad Sahar

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Table of Contents (34) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Swift

2. Exploring Xcode FREE CHAPTER

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

Setting Up the User Interface

In Part 1 of this book, you studied the Swift language and how it works. Now that you have a good working knowledge of the language, you can learn how to develop an iOS application. In this part, you will build the user interface (UI) of a journal app, JRNL. You will use Xcode’s Interface Builder for this, and coding will be kept to a minimum.

You’ll start this chapter by learning useful terms used in iOS app development, which are used extensively throughout this book. Next, you will take a tour of the screens used in the JRNL app and learn how the user would use the app. Finally, you will begin recreating the app’s UI with Interface Builder, starting with the tab bar, which allows the user to select between the Journal List and Map screens. You’ll add navigation bars to the top of both screens and configure the tab bar buttons.

By the end of this chapter, you’ll have learned common terms used in iOS app development...