iOS Apps for Masterminds: How to take advantage of Swift to create insanely great apps for iPhones and iPads

iOS Apps for Masterminds leads the reader step by step to gain essential knowledge and to master complex subjects necessary to create applications for Apple devices. After reading this book, you will know how to program in Swift, how to design user interfaces, and how to work with the most powerful frameworks available for the construction of modern applications.

This book is not an introduction, but instead a complete course that will teach you how to build insanely great applications from scratch. Every chapter explores both basic and complicated concepts of computer programming, the Swift language, and app development. The information is supported by fully functional examples to guide beginners and experts through every single framework included in the iOS SDK. The examples are distributed throughout the book in a specific order to gradually introduce complex topics and make them accessible to everyone.

The goal of iOS Apps for Masterminds is to make you familiar with the most advanced technologies for app development. It was designed to prepare you for the future, and was written for the genius inside you, for Masterminds.

This book includes:

• Introduction to Swift
• Swift Paradigm
• Foundation Framework
• UIKit Framework
• Auto Layout
• Size Classes
• Navigation Controllers
• Scroll Views
• Table Views
• Collection Views
• Split View Controller
• Alert Views
• Notifications
• Files
• Archiving
• Core Data
• iCloud
• Core Graphics and Quartz 2D
• Core Animation
• AVFoundation
• Camera and Photos Library
• Web Views
• Contacts
• Sensors
• MapKit
• Gesture Recognizers
• Timers
• Operation Queues
• Error Handling
• Image and Video
• Internationalization
• …and more!

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 App Development
Chapter 2 Introduction to Swift
Chapter 3 Swift Paradigm
Chapter 4 Frameworks
Chapter 5 Building Applications
Chapter 6 Adaptivity
Chapter 7 Text
Chapter 8 Images and Icons
Chapter 9 Pickers
Chapter 10 Timers
Chapter 11 Scroll Views
Chapter 12 Gesture Recognizers
Chapter 13 Navigation
Chapter 14 Table Views
Chapter 15 Collection Views
Chapter 16 Split View Controllers
Chapter 17 Alert Views
Chapter 18 Notifications
Chapter 19 Error Handling
Chapter 20 Operation Queues
Chapter 21 Storage
Chapter 22 Core Data
Chapter 23 iCloud
Chapter 24 Graphics
Chapter 25 Media
Chapter 26 Pictures and Videos
Chapter 27 Web
Chapter 28 Contacts
Chapter 29 Sensors
Chapter 30 MapKit
Chapter 31 Internationalization
Chapter 32 App Store