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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

Understanding Table Views

The first thing we want to do is get access to all of the UI and Playgrounds' components that we will need. At the very top of the playground, please add the following two import statements:

import UIKit
import PlaygroundSupport

The first import statement imports all of the UI elements we will need. The second import gives us access to Playgrounds support; this will allow us to add our UI elements into Playgrounds. Now, let's create our first UIViewController. This setup is pretty much the same structure I like to use for all of my classes that are controllers. Add a line break and then add the following code:

class TableViewExampleController: UIViewController {

}

This code looks pretty similar to what we did in the last chapter. We created a class named TableViewExampleController and we subclassed UIViewController. Next, we need to create...

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