Most apps interact with the network to retrieve data and then persist that data locally in some form of cache, such as a database. Finally, this section will also dive deeper into the important topic of app state, which determines where and how your user interface stores and refreshes data in the user interface as a user interacts with your app.
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View all. Most used topics Loading…. You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You will have to invest in the following:. If you have an older device, then this is a good time to think about getting an upgrade.
Note : Even though I mostly write about developing for the iPhone in this book, everything I write applies equally to the iPad and iPod touch. Aside from small hardware differences, they all use iOS or iPadOS on the iPad and you program them in exactly the same way. You should also be able to run the apps from this book on your iPad or iPod touch without problems.
It needs to have at least macOS Catalina Xcode, the development environment for iOS apps, is a memory-hungry tool. You can get by with less, but do yourself a favor and upgrade your Mac. The more RAM, the better. A smart developer invests in good tools! Should you happen to buy a machine that has an older version of macOS But to submit finished apps to the App Store, you will have to enroll in the paid Developer Program.
See developer. Xcode is the development tool for iOS apps. Because no app is bug-free, Xcode also has a debugger that helps you find defects in your code.
You can download Xcode for free from the Mac App Store apple. This requires at least an up-to-date version of macOS Catalina Get ready for a big download, as the full Xcode package is over 10 GB! Important : You may already have a version of Xcode on your system that came pre-installed with your version of macOS. Apple puts out new releases of Xcode on a regular basis and you are encouraged to always develop with the latest Xcode and the latest available SDK on the latest version of macOS.
In most cases, the differences will be minor. Many older books and blog posts anything before talk about iOS development in Xcode 5 or earlier. More recent materials may mention Xcode versions 6 all the way to 11, which, at first glance, are similar to Xcode 12, but may differ in some of the details.
You may still be able to get something out of those articles, as the programming examples are still valid. The UIKit Apprentice is spread across four apps, moving from beginning to intermediate topics. For each app, you will build it from start to finish, from scratch! Like any computer, the iPhone works with ones and zeros.
When you write software to run on iPhone, you somehow have to translate the ideas in your head into those ones and zeros that the computer can understand. That would be a bit too much to ask of the human brain. On the other hand, everyday English is not precise enough to use for programming computers. This is an approximation of the language that the computer speaks:.
Actually, what the computer sees is this:. The movl and calll instructions are just there to make things more readable for humans. The above code snippet is from a sound synthesizer program.
It looks like something that almost makes sense. Swift is a hot new language that combines traditional object-oriented programming with aspects of functional programming. Swift is not the only option for making apps. Until just a few years ago, iOS apps were programmed in Objective-C, which is an object-oriented extension of the tried-and-true C language.
Because of its heritage, Objective-C has some rough edges and is not really up to the demands of modern developers. All the cool kids are using it already. It is very powerful, but as a beginning programmer, you probably want to stay away from it.
So, instead, I will explain the language as we go along — very briefly at first, but more in-depth later. In the beginning, the general concepts — what is a variable, what is an object, how do you call a method, and so on — are more important than the details. Slowly but surely, all the arcane secrets of the Swift language will be revealed to you!
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