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Mastering iOS 14 Programming

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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838822842

Length 558 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (3):

Mario Eguiluz Alebicto

Chris Barker

Donny Wals

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: What's New in iOS 14?

2. Chapter 2: Working with Dark Mode FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Using Lists and Tables

4. Chapter 4: Creating a Detail Page

5. Chapter 5: Immersing Your Users with Animation

6. Chapter 6: Understanding the Swift Type System

7. Chapter 7: Flexible Code with Protocols, Generics, and Extensions

8. Chapter 8: Adding Core Data to Your App

9. Chapter 9: Fetching and Displaying Data from the Network

10. Chapter 10: Making Smarter Apps with Core ML

11. Chapter 11: Adding Media to Your App

12. Chapter 12: Improving Apps with Location Services

13. Chapter 13: Working with the Combine Framework

14. Chapter 14: Creating an App Clip for Your App

15. Chapter 15: Recognition with Vision Framework

16. Chapter 16: Creating Your First Widget

17. Chapter 17: Using Augmented Reality

18. Chapter 18: Creating a macOS app with Catalyst

19. Chapter 19: Ensuring App Quality with Tests

20. Chapter 20: Submitting Your App to the App Store

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Discovering Mac Catalyst

Mac Catalyst helps developers to bring their iPad apps into Mac. Native Mac apps can share code with iPad apps, creating a unified ecosystem for users and developers.

With Mac Catalyst, developers can adapt touch gestures and controls from the iPad to mouse and keyboard controls in the Mac app counterpart.

When Apple added support on Mac Catalyst for UIKit on Mac, it took a huge step forward in terms of compatibility between the iPad and Mac. Apps that use SwiftUI instead had the advantage of becoming Universal apps and therefore they adapt even better on both systems.

Once an app has made the initial transition from iPad to iPad + Mac with the help of Mac Catalyst, the result is very promising. There is one codebase to serve both platforms. By having just one codebase, companies can reduce the amount of time and effort needed to develop, maintain, and fix features in the app (for both systems).

There are also some drawbacks with Mac Catalyst...

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Authors (3)

Mario Eguiluz Alebicto

Mario Eguiluz Alebicto

Mario Eguiluz Alebicto is a software engineer with over 15 years of experience in development. He started developing software with Java, later switched to Objective-C when the first iPhone delighted the world, and now, he is working with Swift and involved in backend technologies. He loves to code, build exciting projects, and learn new languages and frameworks. Apart from software development, Mario loves to travel, learn new hobbies, practice sports, and considers himself a hardcore gamer, which he has been since he was a child.

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Chris Barker

Chris Barker

Chris Barker is an iOS developer and tech lead for fashion retailer N Brown (JD Williams, SimplyBe, Jacamo), where he heads up the iOS team. Chris started his career developing .NET applications for online retailer dabs (now BT Shop) before he made his move into mobile app development with digital agency Openshadow (now MyStudioFactory Paris). There, he worked on mobile apps for clients such as Louis Vuitton, L'Oréal Paris, and the Paris Metro. Chris often attends and speaks at local iOS developer meetups and conferences such as NSManchester, Malaga Mobile, and CodeMobile.

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Donny Wals

Donny Wals

Donny Wals is a passionate, curious, iOS developer from The Netherlands. With several years of experience in building apps and sharing knowledge under his belt, Donny is a respected member of the iOS development community. Donny enjoys delivering talks on smaller and larger scales to share his knowledge and experiences with his peers. In addition to sharing knowledge, Donny loves learning more about iOS, Apple's frameworks and development in general. This eagerness to learn has made him into a versatile iOS developer with knowledge of a significant number of Apple's frameworks and tools. During WWDC you will often find Donny binge-watching the talks that Apple engineers deliver to introduce new features and frameworks.

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