Preface

• Who this book is for
• What this book covers
• To get the most out of this book
• Get in touch

1. Part I: Swift

2. Getting Familiar with Xcode FREE CHAPTER

• Technical requirements
• Downloading and installing Xcode from the App Store
• Understanding the Xcode user interface
• Running the app in the iOS simulator
• Using an iOS device for development
• Summary

3. Simple Values and Types

• Technical requirements
• Understanding Swift playgrounds
• Exploring data types
• Exploring constants and variables
• Understanding type inference and type safety
• Exploring operators
• Using the print() statement
• Summary

4. Conditionals and Optionals

• Technical requirements
• Introducing conditionals
• Introducing optionals and optional binding
• Summary

5. Range Operators and Loops

• Technical requirements
• Exploring Range Operators
• Exploring Loops
• Summary

6. Collection Types

• Technical requirements
• Understanding arrays
• Understanding dictionaries
• Understanding sets
• Summary

7. Functions and Closures

• Technical requirements
• Understanding functions
• Understanding closures
• Summary

8. Classes, Structures, and Enumerations

• Technical requirements
• Understanding classes
• Understanding structures
• Understanding enumerations
• Summary

9. Protocols, Extensions, and Error Handling

• Technical requirements
• Understanding protocols
• Understanding extensions
• Exploring error handling
• Summary

10. Swift Concurrency

• Technical requirements
• Understanding Swift Concurrency
• Examining an app without concurrency
• Updating the app using async/await
• Improving efficiency using async-let
• Summary

11. Part II: Design

12. Setting Up the User Interface

• Technical requirements
• Learning useful terms in iOS development
• Touring the Let’s Eat app
• Creating a new Xcode project
• Setting up a tab bar controller scene
• Setting up the Launch screen
• Summary

13. Building Your User Interface

• Technical requirements
• Adding a collection view to the Explore screen
• Connecting storyboard elements to outlets in a view controller
• Configuring data source methods for the collection view
• Adding a section header to the collection view
• Configuring storyboard element sizes
• Presenting a view modally
• Summary

14. Finishing Up Your User Interface

• Technical requirements
• Adding a table view to the Locations screen
• Implementing the Restaurant List screen
• Implementing the Restaurant Detail screen
• Implementing the Map screen
• Summary

15. Modifying and Configuring Cells

• Technical requirements
• Modifying the Explore screen section header
• Modifying the exploreCell collection view cell
• Modifying the restaurantCell collection view cell
• Configuring the locationCell table view cell
• Summary

16. Part III: Code

17. Getting Started with MVC and Collection Views

• Technical requirements
• Understanding the Model-View-Controller design pattern
• Exploring controllers and classes
• Summary

18. Getting Data into Collection Views

• Technical requirements
• Understanding model objects
• Understanding .plist files
• Creating a structure to represent a cuisine
• Implementing a data manager class to read data from a .plist file
• Displaying data in a collection view
• Summary

19. Getting Started with Table Views

• Technical requirements
• Understanding table views
• Creating the LocationViewController class
• Adding location data for the table view
• Creating the LocationDataManager class
• Summary

20. Getting Started with MapKit

• Technical requirements
• Understanding and creating annotations
• Adding annotations to a map view
• Going from the Map screen to the Restaurant Detail screen
• Organizing your code
• Summary

21. Getting Started with JSON Files

• Technical requirements
• Getting data from JSON files
• Using data from JSON files in your app
• Configuring the MapDataManager instance to use data from the RestaurantDataManager instance
• Storing a user-selected location
• Passing location and cuisine information to the RestaurantListViewController instance
• Summary

22. Displaying Data in a Static Table View

• Technical requirements
• Setting up outlets for the RestaurantDetailViewController class
• Displaying data in the static table view
• Passing data to the RestaurantDetailViewController instance
• Summary

23. Getting Started with Custom UIControls

• Technical requirements
• Creating a custom UIControl subclass
• Adding support for touch events
• Implementing an unwind method for the Cancel button
• Creating the ReviewFormViewController class
• Summary

24. Getting Started with Cameras and Photo Libraries

• Technical requirements
• Understanding filters
• Creating model objects for the Photo Filter screen
• Creating the ImageFiltering protocol
• Creating classes for the Photo Filter screen
• Getting permission to use the camera or photo library
• Summary

25. Understanding Core Data

• Technical requirements
• Introducing Core Data
• Implementing Core Data components for your app
• Understanding how saving and loading works
• Updating the ReviewFormViewController class to save reviews
• Updating the PhotoFilterViewController class to save photos
• Displaying saved reviews and photos on the Restaurant Detail screen
• Calculating a restaurant’s overall rating
• Summary

26. Part IV: Features

27. Getting Started with Mac Catalyst

• Technical requirements
• Fixing user interface issues
• Making your app run on all iOS devices
• Updating the app to work on macOS
• Summary

28. Getting Started with SwiftUI

• Technical requirements
• Creating a SwiftUI Xcode project
• Creating the Restaurant List screen
• Adding model objects and configuring navigation
• Using UIKit and SwiftUI Views together
• Completing the Restaurant Detail screen
• Summary

29. Getting Started with Lock Screen Widgets

• Technical requirements
• Introducing widgets
• Adding a widget target to your app
• Providing timeline entries to your widget
• Customizing your widget’s view
• Adding a widget to your Lock screen
• Summary

30. Getting Started with WeatherKit

• Technical requirements
• Understanding WeatherKit
• Preparing your app to use WeatherKit
• Creating the WeatherDataManager class
• Displaying Weather data on the Restaurant Detail screen
• Summary

31. Testing and Submitting Your App to the App Store

• Technical requirements
• Getting an Apple Developer account
• Exploring your Apple Developer account
• Submitting your app to the App Store
• Testing your app
• Summary

32. Other Books You May Enjoy

33. Index