In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on and pragmatic journey to learning iOS 14 application development using Swift. You'll start building your first iOS app within minutes. Every section is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don't want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need. In the end, you will have the skills to create an app and submit it to the app store.




In the course of this book, we will cover:




Chapter 1 & 2 - Working with Xcode and Swift to build a BMI calculator app.

Chapter 3 - Build a Quotes app using Table View

Chapter 4 - Create a To Do List app (create, read, update and delete to-do items)

Chapter 5 - Implement data persistency to our To Do List app using Core Data

Chapter 6 - Improve our To Do List app by adding images and swipe deletion

Chapter 7 - Build a cryptocurrency price tracker app which retrieves prices via an API

Chapter 8 - Build a image detection app using machine learning

Chapter 9 - Create an Augmented Reality app with ARKit

Chapter 10 - Publish our app on to the App store

Chapter 11 - SwiftUI

Chapter 12 - Widgets

Chapter 13 - App Clips

Chapter 14 - Dark Mode

Chapter 15 - Porting your iOS App to the Mac with Project Catalyst

Chapter 16 - In-App Purchases




The goal of this book is to teach you iOS development in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.




About the Reader

No previous knowledge on iOS development required, but you should have basic programming knowledge.




About the Author

Greg Lim is a technologist and author of several programming books. Greg has many years in teaching programming in tertiary institutions and he places special emphasis on learning by doing.