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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   iOS 12 Programming for Beginners An introductory guide to iOS app development with Swift 4.2 and Xcode 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789348668
Length 692 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Craig Clayton Craig Clayton
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Familiar with Xcode 2. Building a Foundation with Swift FREE CHAPTER 3. Building on the Swift Foundation 4. Digging Deeper 5. Digging into Collections 6. Starting the UI Setup 7. Setting Up the Basic Structure 8. Building Our App Structure in Storyboard 9. Finishing Up Our App Structure in Storyboard 10. Designing Cells 11. Getting Started with the Grid 12. Getting Data into Our Grid 13. Getting Started with the List 14. Where Are We? 15. Working with an API 16. Displaying Data in Restaurant Detail 17. Foodie Reviews 18. Working with Photo Filters 19. Understanding Core Data 20. Saving Reviews 21. Universal 22. iMessages 23. Notifications 24. SiriKit 25. Beta and Store Submission 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

Hooking up our UI with IBOutlets

To access our UI elements, we need to connect them to IBOutlets. To do so, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the ExploreCell.swift file in the Navigator panel (or use command + Shift + O, type ExploreCell, and then hit Enter).
  2. Inside of the class declaration, add the following:
@IBOutlet var lblName:UILabel!
@IBOutlet var imgExplore:UIImageView!
  1. Open Explore.storyboard and select your exploreCell again using the project Outline.
  2. In the Utilities panel, select the Connection inspector. You should see both variables we just created, lblName and imgExplore, under Outlets:
  1. Click-drag from imgExplore to the UIImageView we put in our cell:
  1. Repeat this step for lblName by click-dragging from lblName to the UILabel in our cell:

Great! Now that we have our cell set up, let's pull data into it. In our ExploreDataManager, add these two methods...

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