Touring the Let's Eat app

Let's take a quick tour of the app that you will build. The Let's Eat app is a restaurant app that allows users to explore a list of restaurants categorized by cuisine or view a map showing all restaurants in a particular area. You'll see all the screens used in the app and its overall flow in the next sections.

Tip

You can see a video version of this app tour at this link: https://bit.ly/3G0Pv7U.

Using the Explore screen

When the app is launched, you will see the Explore screen:

Figure 9.6: Explore screen

Let's study the different parts of this screen.

A UITabBar instance (tab bar) at the bottom of the screen displays Explore and Map buttons. The Explore button is selected, and you see a collection view displaying a list of cuisines in collection view cells. A UICollectionReusableView instance (section header) containing a LOCATION button is at the top of the screen.

Before you can pick a...