Fahim Farook - UIKit Apprentice: Beginning iOS Development with Swift

By Fahim Farook & Matthijs Hollemans

Fahim Farook & Matthijs Hollemans.

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"For my parents and my wife."

Fahim Farook

"To Floortje, my familiar. Thanks for all the cuddles!"

Matthijs Hollemans

Matthijs Hollemans is the author of this book. He is a mystic who lives at the top of a mountain where he spends all of his days and nights coding up awesome apps. Actually he lives below sea level in the Netherlands and is pretty down-to-earth but he does spend too much time in Xcode. Check out his website at www.matthijshollemans.com.

Fahim Farook is the author of this book. He is a developer with over 30 years of experience in developing in over a dozen different languages. Fahims current focus is on mobile development with over 100+ iOS apps, 10+ macOS apps, a few Android apps, and several Flutter apps under his belt. He has lived in Sri Lanka, USA, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, France, the UAE, Spain, and Canada, and enjoys science fiction and fantasy novels, TV shows, and movies. You can follow Fahim on Twitter at @FahimFarook.

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This section tells you a few things you need to know before you get started, such as what youll need for hardware and software, where to find the project files for this book and more.

To follow along with this book, youll need the following:

• A Mac computer with an Intel/ARM processor. Any Mac that youve bought in the last few years will do, even a Mac mini or MacBook Air.

• Xcode 12 and Swift 5.3: Xcode is the main development tool for writing code in Swift. You'll need Xcode 12 at a minimum, since that version includes Swift 5.3. You can download the latest version of Xcode for free from the Mac App Store.

• Optionally, an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 14.

The materials for this book are all available in the GitHub repository here:

• https://github.com/raywenderlich/ia-materials/tree/editions/9.0

You can download the entire set of materials for the book from that page.

Weve also set up an official forum for the book at forums.raywenderlich.com. This is a great place to ask questions about the book or to submit any errors you may find.

Striped dolphins live to about 55-60 years of age, can travel in pods numbering in the thousands and can dive to depths of 700 m to feed on fish, cephalopods and crustaceans. Baby dolphins don't sleep for a full a month after theyre born. That puts two or three sleepless nights spent debugging code into perspective, doesn't it?

This section introduces you to the first of the four apps you'll build over the course of this book Bull's Eye.

As you progress through building the Bull's Eye app, the section will teach you how to think like a programmer and how to plan your programming tasks. In addition, you'll also learn how to use Xcode, Interface Builder, and even the basics of coding for iOS.

While some of the concepts in this section might seem a bit basic, please do not skip this section if you are new to iOS development you will learn some fundamentals which act as the building blocks for what you learn later.

Hi, welcome to The UIKit Apprentice: Beginning iOS Development with Swift, First Edition, the swiftest way if you'll pardon the pun to iOS development mastery!

In this book, you'll learn how to make your own iPhone and iPad apps using Apples Swift programming language (and Xcode 12) and the iOS UIKit framework, by building four interesting iOS apps.

Everybody likes games, right? So, youll start by building a simple but fun iPhone game named Bulls Eye. It will teach you the basics of iPhone programming, and the other apps will build on what you learn there.

Taken together, the four apps that you'll build cover everything you need to know to make your own apps. By the end of the book, youll be experienced enough to turn your ideas into real apps that you can put on the App Store!