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Swift iOS Programming for Kids

You're reading from   Swift iOS Programming for Kids Help your kids build simple and engaging applications with Swift 3.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120747
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steffen D. Sommer Steffen D. Sommer
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The UIViewController life cycle

As the requirements for our UI grow, we need to have more granular control of our views. We need to be able to tell what state our view is currently in inside our code. Is it, for example, shown or did the user just close the app? Is the app currently navigating from one view to another or is it just about to be shown, but still loading. All of these states refer to the  life cycle of the UIViewController, which is very important when we want to build a great UI. The life cycle of a view can be overwhelming to dive into, but often we only need a couple of these states in order to make our UIs as we want them to be. The way we handle these states is by implementing certain methods defined by Apple. Then, Apple guarantees to call these methods at the right moment according to the view life cycle. Let's take a look at some of the important states related to the UIViewController:

  • viewDidLoad(): This method will be called after...
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