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iOS Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS Programming Cookbook Over 50 exciting and powerful recipes to help you unearth the promise of iOS programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460981
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 2. The Essentials 3. Integrating with Messages App 4. Working with Interface Builder 5. Working with UITableView 6. Animations and Graphics 7. Multimedia 8. Concurrency 9. Location Services 10. Security and Encryption 11. Networking 12. Persisting Data with Core Data 13. Notifications 14. App Search 15. Optimizing Performance

App indexing using NSUserActivity

The first technology of indexing for app indexing is working with NSUserActivity. This class helps you to index items when users perform activities in your app, such as opening specific screens or interacting with app content. Using this activity class will help a user to find the information that they need in search results and will improve your app's ranking. NSUserActivity is not intended to index an app's arbitrary data; it only indexes the user's activities. If you want to index app-specific data, you will need to use Core Spotlight APIs and that's what we will do in the next section:

In the following demo, we will build a simple wallet app where a user can track their expenses by entering the item name and price. Once the user enters a new item in the wallet, we will create a user activity so that the system can index...

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