Chapter 9: Setting Up the User Interface

In Part 1 of this book, you studied about 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 of a restaurant reservation app, Let's Eat. 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 tour the screens used in the Let's Eat 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 Explore and Map screens. You'll add navigation bars to the top of both screens. You'll also learn how to configure the Launch screen that is displayed when the app is started and...