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iOS Programming
Table of Contents
Introduction
- Prerequisites
- What Has Changed in the Sixth Edition?
- Our Teaching Philosophy
- How to Use This Book
- How This Book Is Organized
- Style Choices
- Typographical Conventions
- Necessary Hardware and Software
Chapter 1 A Simple iOS Application
- Creating an Xcode Project
- Model-View-Controller
- Designing Quiz
- Interface Builder
- Building the Interface
- Creating the Model Layer
  - Implementing action methods
  - Loading the first question
- Building the Finished Application
- Application Icons
- Launch Screen
Chapter 2 The Swift Language
- Types in Swift
- Using Standard Types
- Optionals
  - Subscripting dictionaries
- Loops and String Interpolation
- Enumerations and the Switch Statement
  - Enumerations and raw values
- Exploring Apple’s Swift Documentation
Chapter 3 Views and the View Hierarchy
- View Basics
- The View Hierarchy
- Creating a New Project
- Views and Frames
  - Customizing the labels
- The Auto Layout System
- Bronze Challenge: More Auto Layout Practice
Chapter 4 Text Input and Delegation
- Text Editing
- Implementing the Temperature Conversion
  - Number formatters
- Delegation
- Bronze Challenge: Disallow Alphabetic Characters
Chapter 5 View Controllers
- The View of a View Controller
- Setting the Initial View Controller
- UITabBarController
  - Tab bar items
- Loaded and Appearing Views
  - Accessing subviews
- Interacting with View Controllers and Their Views
- Silver Challenge: Dark Mode
- For the More Curious: Retina Display
Chapter 6 Programmatic Views
- Creating a View Programmatically
- Programmatic Constraints
- Programmatic Controls
- Bronze Challenge: Another Tab
- Silver Challenge: User’s Location
- Gold Challenge: Dropping Pins
- For the More Curious: NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint
Chapter 7 Localization
- Internationalization
- Localization
  - NSLocalizedString and strings tables
- Bronze Challenge: Another Localization
- For the More Curious: Bundle’s Role in Internationalization
- For the More Curious: Importing and Exporting as XLIFF
Chapter 8 Controlling Animations
- Basic Animations
  - Closures
- Another Label
- Animation Completion
- Animating Constraints
- Timing Functions
- Bronze Challenge: Spring Animations
- Silver Challenge: Layout Guides
Chapter 9 Debugging
- A Buggy Project
- Debugging Basics
- The Xcode Debugger: LLDB
Chapter 10 UITableView and UITableViewController
- Beginning the Homepwner Application
- UITableViewController
  - Subclassing UITableViewController
- Creating the Item Class
  - Custom initializers
- UITableView’s Data Source
  - Giving the controller access to the store
  - Implementing data source methods
- UITableViewCells
  - Creating and retrieving UITableViewCells
  - Reusing UITableViewCells
- Content Insets
- Bronze Challenge: Sections
- Silver Challenge: Constant Rows
- Gold Challenge: Customizing the Table
Chapter 11 Editing UITableView
- Editing Mode
- Adding Rows
- Deleting Rows
- Moving Rows
- Displaying User Alerts
- Design Patterns
- Bronze Challenge: Renaming the Delete Button
- Silver Challenge: Preventing Reordering
- Gold Challenge: Really Preventing Reordering
Chapter 12 Subclassing UITableViewCell
- Creating ItemCell
- Exposing the Properties of ItemCell
- Using ItemCell
- Dynamic Cell Heights
- Dynamic Type
  - Responding to user changes
- Bronze Challenge: Cell Colors
Chapter 13 Stack Views
- Using UIStackView
- Segues
- Hooking Up the Content
- Passing Data Around
- Bronze Challenge: More Stack Views
Chapter 14 UINavigationController
- UINavigationController
- Navigating with UINavigationController
- Appearing and Disappearing Views
- Dismissing the Keyboard
- UINavigationBar
  - Adding buttons to the navigation bar
- Bronze Challenge: Displaying a Number Pad
- Silver Challenge: A Custom UITextField
- Gold Challenge: Pushing More View Controllers
Chapter 15 Camera
- Displaying Images and UIImageView
  - Adding a camera button
- Taking Pictures and UIImagePickerController
- Creating ImageStore
- Giving View Controllers Access to the Image Store
- Creating and Using Keys
- Wrapping Up ImageStore
- Bronze Challenge: Editing an Image
- Silver Challenge: Removing an Image
- Gold Challenge: Camera Overlay
- For the More Curious: Navigating Implementation Files
  - // MARK:
Chapter 16 Saving, Loading, and Application States
- Archiving
- Application Sandbox
  - Constructing a file URL
- NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver
  - Loading files
- Application States and Transitions
- Writing to the Filesystem with Data
- Error Handling
- Bronze Challenge: PNG
- For the More Curious: Application State Transitions
- For the More Curious: Reading and Writing to the Filesystem
- For the More Curious: The Application Bundle
Chapter 17 Size Classes
- Modifying Traits for a Specific Size Class
- Bronze Challenge: Stacked Text Field and Labels
Chapter 18 Touch Events and UIResponder
- Touch Events
- Creating the TouchTracker Application
- Creating the Line Struct
  - Structs
  - Value types vs reference types
- Creating DrawView
- Drawing with DrawView
- Turning Touches into Lines
  - Handling multiple touches
- @IBInspectable
- Silver Challenge: Colors
- Gold Challenge: Circles
- For the More Curious: The Responder Chain
- For the More Curious: UIControl
Chapter 19 UIGestureRecognizer and UIMenuController
- UIGestureRecognizer Subclasses
- Detecting Taps with UITapGestureRecognizer
- Multiple Gesture Recognizers
- UIMenuController
- More Gesture Recognizers
  - UILongPressGestureRecognizer
  - UIPanGestureRecognizer and simultaneous recognizers
- More on UIGestureRecognizer
- Silver Challenge: Mysterious Lines
- Gold Challenge: Speed and Size
- Platinum Challenge: Colors
- For the More Curious: UIMenuController and UIResponderStandardEditActions
Chapter 20 Web Services
- Starting the Photorama Application
- Building the URL
  - Formatting URLs and requests
  - URLComponents
- Sending the Request
  - URLSession
- Modeling the Photo
- JSON Data
- Downloading and Displaying the Image Data
- The Main Thread
- Bronze Challenge: Printing the Response Information
- Silver Challenge: Fetch Recent Photos from Flickr
- For the More Curious: HTTP
Chapter 21 Collection Views
- Displaying the Grid
- Collection View Data Source
- Customizing the Layout
- Creating a Custom UICollectionViewCell
- Downloading the Image Data
  - Extensions
  - Image caching
- Navigating to a Photo
- Silver Challenge: Updated Item Sizes
- Gold Challenge: Creating a Custom Layout
Chapter 22 Core Data
- Object Graphs
- Entities
- NSPersistentContainer
- Updating Items
  - Inserting into the context
  - Saving changes
- Updating the Data Source
  - Fetch requests and predicates
- Bronze Challenge: Photo View Count
- For the More Curious: The Core Data Stack
Chapter 23 Core Data Relationships
- Relationships
- Adding Tags to the Interface
- Background Tasks
- Silver Challenge: Favorites
Chapter 24 Accessibility
- VoiceOver
  - Testing VoiceOver
  - Accessibility in Photorama
Chapter 25 Afterword
- What to Do Next
- Shameless Plugs
Index

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