Programming iOS 9: Dive Deep into Views, View Controllers, and Frameworks

If you’re grounded in the basics of Swift, Xcode, and the Cocoa framework, this book provides a structured explanation of all essential real-world iOS app components. Through deep exploration and copious code examples, you’ll learn how to create views, manipulate view controllers, and add features from iOS frameworks.

Stay up-to-date on iOS 9 innovations, such as the new layout constraint notation, expanded UIKit dynamics, revised unwind segues, iPad multitasking, and the Contacts framework. All example code is available on GitHub for you to download, study, and run.

• Create, arrange, draw, layer, and animate views that respond to touch
• Use view controllers to manage multiple interface screens
• Master interface classes for scroll views, table views, text, popovers, split views, web views, and controls
• Dive into frameworks for sound, video, maps, and sensors
• Access user libraries: music, photos, contacts, and calendar
• Understand further topics, including files, networking, and threads

Table of Contents

Part I. Views
Chapter 1. Views
Chapter 2. Drawing
Chapter 3. Layers
Chapter 4. Animation
Chapter 5. Touches

Part II. Interface
Chapter 6. View Controllers
Chapter 7. Scroll Views
Chapter 8. Table Views and Collection Views
Chapter 9. iPad Interface
Chapter 10. Text
Chapter 11. Web Views
Chapter 12. Controls and Other Views
Chapter 13. Modal Dialogs

Part III. Some Frameworks
Chapter 14. Audio
Chapter 15. Video
Chapter 16. Music Library
Chapter 17. Photo Library and Image Capture
Chapter 18. Contacts
Chapter 19. Calendar
Chapter 20. Mail and Messages
Chapter 21. Maps
Chapter 22. Sensors

Part IV. Final Topics
Chapter 23. Persistent Storage
Chapter 24. Basic Networking
Chapter 25. Threads
Chapter 26. Undo

Appendix A. Application Lifetime Events
Appendix B. Some Useful Utility Functions