Beginning iOS 18 Programming with Swift and UIKit: Learn UIKit and Swift by Building a Real World iOS App.

Are you aspiring to become an iOS app developer? If so, we have just the book for you. Designed with beginners in mind, this book is your comprehensive guide to learning UIKit, the essential framework for iOS app development. Whether you're starting from scratch or looking to enhance your skills, this book covers the entire process of iOS app development using the Swift programming language and the UIKit framework.

The book is fully updated for Xcode 16, Swift 6.0, and iOS 18.

What you will learn
This comprehensive book takes you through the entire process of Swift programming, guiding you in building a real-world app from scratch. Starting with the fundamentals of Swift, each chapter focuses on prototyping an app and gradually introducing new features. By the end of the book, you will have developed a fully functional app.
Throughout the journey, you will learn valuable skills such as displaying data in table views, customizing the appearance of cells, designing user interfaces using Stack Views, creating engaging animations, working with maps, building adaptive user interfaces, saving data in a local database, uploading data to iCloud, and utilizing TestFlight for beta testing arrangements.
This new book features a lot of hands-on exercises and projects. You will get the opportunities to write code, fix bugs and test your app. Most importantly, you will be able to develop an app and release it on App Store.
Who is this book for

This book is written for beginners without any prior programming experience and those who want to learn Swift programming. Whether you are a programmer who wants to learn a new programming language or a designer who wants to turn your design into an iOS app or an entrepreneur who wants to learn to code, this book is written for you.

Table of Content

Chapter 1 - The Development Tools, the Learning Approach, and the App Idea
Chapter 2 - Your First Taste of Swift with Playgrounds
Chapter 3 - Hello World! Build Your First App in Swift
Chapter 4 - Hello World App Explained
Chapter 5 - Introduction to Auto Layout
Chapter 6 - Designing UI Using Stack Views
Chapter 7 - Introduction to Prototyping
Chapter 8 - Creating a Simple Table-based App
Chapter 9 - Customize Table Views Using Prototype Cell
Chapter 10 - Interacting with Table View and Using UIAlertController
Chapter 11 - Table Row Deletion, Custom Action Button and MVC
Chapter 12 - Introduction to Navigation Controller and Segue
Chapter 13 - Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 14 - Detail View Enhancement and Navigation Bar Customization
Chapter 15 - Navigation Bar Customization, Extensions and Dynamic Type
Chapter 16 - Working with Maps
Chapter 17 - Basic Animations, Visual Effects and Unwind Segues
Chapter 18 - Working with Static Table Views, Camera and NSLayoutConstraint
Chapter 19 - Working with SwiftData and Managing Databases
Chapter 20 - Search Bar and UISearchController
Chapter 21 - Building Walkthrough Screens with UIPageViewController and Container Views
Chapter 22 - Exploring Tab Bar Controller and Storyboard References
Chapter 23 - Getting Started with WKWebView and SFSafariViewController
Chapter 24 - Exploring CloudKit
Chapter 25 - Localizing Your App to Reach More Users
Chapter 26 - Deploying and Testing Your App on a Real iOS Device
Chapter 27 - Beta Testing with TestFlight and CloudKit Production Deployment
Chapter 28 - Submit Your App to App Store
Chapter 29 - Adopting 3D Touch, Haptic Touch and Context Menus
Chapter 30 - Developing User Notifications in iOS
Appendix - Swift Basics

What's included

On top of the ebook, all the source code are available for download. You are free to use the code for your personal/commercial projects.