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Learning Xcode 8

You're reading from   Learning Xcode 8 Learn to build iOS Applications with Xcode 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885723
Length 480 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jak Tiano Jak Tiano
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting Your iOS Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Welcome to Xcode 3. Introduction to Swift 3 4. Using Storyboards, Auto Layout, and Size Classes 5. Taking Advantage of Source Control in Xcode 6. Building Your First iOS App 7. Integrating Multitouch and Gestures 8. Exploring Common iOS Frameworks 9. Working with Core Data 10. Creating a watchOS Companion App 11. Advanced Input Using Sensors 12. Sending Notifications 13. Writing Unit Tests 14. Debugging an iOS Application 15. Optimizing Your App 16. Distributing an iOS App Index

Scroll through snippets


All this time, we've been building out our data model and adding ways to input new information. However, we still can't see any of the snippets we've been making! Now it's time to actually let the user see what they've been saving.

The next story is "I want to scroll through my snippets". The tasks that we need to complete are:

  • Adding a UITableView to our first scene, with two prototype cells for the TextSnippet and the PhotoSnippet

  • Programming the view controller to display the information from our data array in our UITableView

To satisfy our user story, we're going to use a UITableView, which allows us to scroll through cells of data. We're also going to create our own custom cells (called prototype cells) to define a distinct look for both the Text and Photo type cells. Then, we are going to populate the table view with data from our data array.

Create prototype cells

Current task: Add a UITableView to our first scene, with two prototype cells for the TextSnippet...

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