You're reading from iOS 15 Programming for Beginners Kickstart your mobile app development journey by building iOS apps with Swift 5.5 and Xcode 13

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801811248

Length 784 pages

Edition 6th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (2):

Ahmad Sahar

Craig Clayton

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Table of Contents (32) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Swift

2. Chapter 1: Getting Familiar with Xcode FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Simple Values and Types

4. Chapter 3: Conditionals and Optionals

5. Chapter 4: Range Operators and Loops

6. Chapter 5: Collection Types

7. Chapter 6: Functions and Closures

8. Chapter 7: Classes, Structures, and Enumerations

9. Chapter 8: Protocols, Extensions, and Error Handling

10. Part 2: Design

11. Chapter 9: Setting Up the User Interface

12. Chapter 10: Building Your User Interface

13. Chapter 11: Finishing Up Your User Interface

14. Chapter 12: Modifying and Configuring Cells

15. Part 3: Code

16. Chapter 13: Getting Started with MVC and Collection Views

17. Chapter 14: Getting Data into Collection Views

18. Chapter 15: Getting Started with Table Views

19. Chapter 16: Getting Started with MapKit

20. Chapter 17: Getting Started with JSON Files

21. Chapter 18: Displaying Data in a Static Table View

22. Chapter 19: Getting Started with Custom UIControls

23. Chapter 20: Getting Started with Cameras and Photo Libraries

24. Chapter 21: Understanding Core Data

25. Part 4: Features

26. Chapter 22: Getting Started with Mac Catalyst

27. Chapter 23: Getting Started with SwiftUI

28. Chapter 24: Getting Started with Swift Concurrency

29. Chapter 25: Getting Started with SharePlay

30. Chapter 26: Testing and Submitting Your App to the App Store

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Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to download and install Xcode on your Mac. You familiarized yourself with the different parts of the Xcode user interface. You created your first iOS app, selected a simulator, and built and ran the app. You learned what the No Device and Generic iOS Device menu items are for. This enables you to create and run iOS apps on your Mac without requiring an iOS device.

You learned how to connect an iOS device to Xcode via USB so that you can run the app on it. You added an Apple ID to Xcode so the necessary digital certificates can be created and installed on your device, and trusted the certificate on your device. This gives you the ability to run your apps on an actual device, so you can more accurately determine their performance, and make use of features not available in the iOS simulator.

Finally, you learned how to connect to your device over Wi-Fi, so you no longer need to plug and unplug your device every time you want to run an app. This makes it much more convenient to build and test your apps on an iOS device as any new builds can be transferred immediately over the air.

In the next chapter, you'll start exploring the Swift language using Swift Playgrounds, and learn how simple values and types are implemented in Swift.