iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Updated for Xcode 11, Swift 5, and iOS 13, iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. After completing this book, you will have the know-how and the confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own.

Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s popular iOS training and its well-tested materials and methodology, this bestselling guide teaches iOS concepts and coding in tandem. The result is instruction that is relevant and useful.

Throughout the book, the authors explain what’s important and share their insights into the larger context of the iOS platform. You get a real understanding of how iOS development works, the many features that are available, and when and where to apply what you’ve learned.

New features and content include:

• Chapters on Container View Controllers and Custom UI Control Subclasses
• Added coverage of the Codable APIs, including handling some common custom JSON decoded situations
• Reworked the animations chapter for the new UI Property Animator APIs

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 A Simple iOS Application

Chapter 2 The Swift Language

Chapter 3 Views and the View Hierarchy

Chapter 4 View Controllers

Chapter 5 Programmatic Views

Chapter 6 Text Input and Delegation

Chapter 7 Internationalization and Localization

Chapter 8 Debugging

Chapter 9 UITableView and UITableViewController

Chapter 10 Subclassing UITableViewCell

Chapter 11 Stack Views

Chapter 12 Navigation Controllers

Chapter 13 Saving, Loading, and Scene States

Chapter 14 Presenting View Controllers

Chapter 15 Camera

Chapter 16 Adaptive Interfaces

Chapter 17 Extensions and Container View Controllers

Chapter 18 Custom Controls

Chapter 19 Controlling Animations

Chapter 20 Web Services

Chapter 21 Collection Views

Chapter 22 Core Data

Chapter 23 Core Data Relationships

Chapter 24 Accessibility

Chapter 25 Afterword

About the Author

Christian Keur (Atlanta, GA) is a software engineer and instructor at Big Nerd Ranch, where he maintains the course materials for the company’s highly acclaimed iOS Bootcamp on which this book is based. Christian earned a degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and can often be found wandering around Atlanta, glancing up at the stars, or reading a book.

Aaron Hillegass (Atlanta, GA), founder of Big Nerd Ranch and a former employee at NeXT and Apple, has nearly two decades’ experience programming and teaching Objective-C, Cocoa, and, more recently, iOS. Aaron is the co-author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X and Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide.