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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift

You're reading from   Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift Create fully-featured and highly functional iOS apps by writing tests first

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880735
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Structure of the app

The following diagram shows the structure of the app:

Structure of the app

The Table View Controller, the delegate and the data source

In iOS apps, data is often presented using a table view. Table views are highly optimized for performance; they are easy to use and to implement. We will use a table view for the list of to-do items.

A table view is usually represented by UITableViewController, which is also the data source and delegate for the table view. This often leads to a massive table View Controller because it is doing too much: presenting the view, navigating to other view controllers, and managing the presentation of the data in the table view.

It is a good practice to split up the responsibility into several classes. Therefore, we will use a helper class to act as the data source and delegate for the table view. The communication between the Table View Controller and the helper class will be defined using a protocol. Protocols define what the interface of a class looks like. This...

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Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift
Published in: Feb 2016
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781785880735
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