You're reading from iOS 16 Programming for Beginners Kickstart your iOS app development journey with a hands-on guide to Swift 5.7 and Xcode 14

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803237046

Length 686 pages

Edition 7th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (2):

Ahmad Sahar

Craig Clayton

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Table of Contents (34) Chapters

Preface

1. Part I: Swift

2. Getting Familiar with 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 II: Design

12. Setting Up the User Interface

13. Building Your User Interface

14. Finishing Up Your User Interface

15. Modifying and Configuring Cells

16. Part III: Code

17. Getting Started with MVC and Collection Views

18. Getting Data into Collection Views

19. Getting Started with Table Views

20. Getting Started with MapKit

21. Getting Started with JSON Files

22. Displaying Data in a Static Table View

23. Getting Started with Custom UIControls

24. Getting Started with Cameras and Photo Libraries

25. Understanding Core Data

26. Part IV: Features

27. Getting Started with Mac Catalyst

28. Getting Started with SwiftUI

29. Getting Started with Lock Screen Widgets

30. Getting Started with WeatherKit

31. Testing and Submitting Your App to the App Store

32. Other Books You May Enjoy

33. Index

Introducing widgets

A widget appears as a small pane of information on your Home screen. It’s meant to provide relevant and glanceable content. For example, if you’re at a particular location, a widget could display restaurants at that location. Tapping the widget launches your app. In iOS 16, you could also display widgets on your Lock screen as well as your Home screen.

Watch the video at the following link to see the Meet WidgetKit WWDC 2020 session: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10028.

Watch the video at the following link to see the Complications and widgets: Reloaded WWDC 2022 session: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10050/.

More information about widgets is available at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/widgetkit.

Apple provides templates that make adding a widget to your app very easy. Let’s start by adding a widget target to your LetsEat project in the next...

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