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iOS 18 Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   iOS 18 Programming for Beginners Learn iOS development with Swift 6, Xcode 16, and iOS 18 - your path to App Store success

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836204893
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Edition 9th Edition
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Table of Contents (34) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Swift FREE CHAPTER
2. Exploring Xcode 3. Simple Values and Types 4. Conditionals and Optionals 5. Range Operators and Loops 6. Collection Types 7. Functions and Closures 8. Classes, Structures, and Enumerations 9. Protocols, Extensions, and Error Handling 10. Swift Concurrency 11. Part 2: Design
12. Setting Up the User Interface 13. Building Your User Interface 14. Finishing Up Your User Interface 15. Modifying App Screens 16. Part 3: Code
17. Getting Started with MVC and Table Views 18. Getting Data into Table Views 19. Passing Data between View Controllers 20. Getting Started with Core Location and MapKit 21. Getting Started with JSON Files 22. Getting Started with Custom Views 23. Getting Started with the Camera and Photo Library 24. Getting Started with Search 25. Getting Started with Collection Views 26. Part 4: Features
27. Getting Started with SwiftData 28. Getting Started with SwiftUI 29. Getting Started with Swift Testing 30. Getting Started with Apple Intelligence 31. Testing and Submitting Your App to the App Store 32. Other Books You May Enjoy
33. Index

Exploring closures

A closure, like a function, contains a sequence of instructions and can take arguments and return values. However, closures don't have names. The sequence of instructions in a closure is surrounded by curly braces ({ }), and the in keyword separates the arguments and return type from the closure body.

Closures can be assigned to a constant or variable, so they're handy if you need to pass them around inside your program. For instance, let's say you have an app that downloads a file from the internet, and you need to do something to the file once it has finished downloading. You can put a list of instructions to process the file inside a closure and have your program execute it once the file finishes downloading.

To learn more about closures, visit https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/closures/.

You'll now write a closure that applies a calculation on each...

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