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Swift 4 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift 4 Programming Cookbook 50 task-oriented recipes to maximise Swift 4 productivity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460899
Length 384 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Keith Moon Keith Moon
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 2. Building on the Building Blocks 3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow 4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types 5. Beyond the Standard Library 6. Swift Playgrounds 7. Server-Side Swift 8. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

Import Resources into Playgrounds

While building apps, we will often need to bundle resources, such as images, with the app. How can we do the same with playgrounds so that our UI can incorporate these images? That is what we will investigate in this recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use the playground from the previous recipe. The playground is called Simple_iOS.playground, and you can get it from the GitHub repository for this chapter, available at http://swiftbook.link/code/chapter6.

This playground demonstrates a simple custom view that shows a bar chart. We will improve this playground by adding a semitransparent image that will act as a texture for the bars in our bar chart.

You can download the semitransparent...

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