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Mastering iOS 12 Programming

You're reading from   Mastering iOS 12 Programming Build professional-grade iOS applications with Swift and Xcode 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133202
Length 750 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Preface 1. UITableView Touch-up 2. A Better Layout with UICollectionView FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating a Detail Page 4. Immersing Your Users with Animation 5. Understanding the Swift Type System 6. Writing Flexible Code with Protocols and Generics 7. Improving the Application Structure 8. Adding Core Data to Your App 9. Fetching and Displaying Data from the Network 10. Being Proactive with Background Fetch 11. Syncing Data with CloudKit 12. Using Augmented Reality 13. Improving Apps With Location Services 14. Making Smarter Apps with CoreML 15. Tracking Activity Using HealthKit 16. Streamlining Experiences with Siri 17. Using Media in Your App 18. Implementing Rich Notifications 19. Instant Information with a Today Extension 20. Exchanging Data With Drag And Drop 21. Improved Discoverability with Spotlight and Universal Links 22. Extending iMessage 23. Ensuring App Quality with Tests 24. Discovering Bottlenecks with Instruments 25. Offloading Tasks with Operations and GCD 26. Submitting Your App to the App Store 27. Answers 28. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

This chapter showed you how to implement a smooth drag and drop experience for your users. Drag and drop has limited functionality on the iPhone, but this doesn't stop it from being a powerful feature that can be used to support the dragging of contents within an application or to reorder a UICollectionView. Collections and tables have received special treatment because they have their own delegate methods and enable you to easily access the cell that is selected by the user for dragging.

While drag and drop might seem complicated at first glance, Apple did a great job of containing this complexity in a couple of relatively simple delegate methods that you can implement. A simple drag and drop implementation only requires you to implement fewer than a handful of methods, which is quite impressive for such a powerful feature!

In the next chapter, you will perform some...

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