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iOS 12 Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   iOS 12 Programming for Beginners An introductory guide to iOS app development with Swift 4.2 and Xcode 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789348668
Length 692 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Craig Clayton Craig Clayton
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Familiar with Xcode FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Foundation with Swift 3. Building on the Swift Foundation 4. Digging Deeper 5. Digging into Collections 6. Starting the UI Setup 7. Setting Up the Basic Structure 8. Building Our App Structure in Storyboard 9. Finishing Up Our App Structure in Storyboard 10. Designing Cells 11. Getting Started with the Grid 12. Getting Data into Our Grid 13. Getting Started with the List 14. Where Are We? 15. Working with an API 16. Displaying Data in Restaurant Detail 17. Foodie Reviews 18. Working with Photo Filters 19. Understanding Core Data 20. Saving Reviews 21. Universal 22. iMessages 23. Notifications 24. SiriKit 25. Beta and Store Submission 26. Other Books You May Enjoy

The if statements – having fun with logic statements

Let's add our first piece of logic using an if statement. An if statement is a simple statement to determine whether or not a statement is true. Input the following into Xcode:

In the first line of the preceding code, we created a constant named isPictureVisible, and we set it to true. The next line starts our if statement and reads as follows: if isPictureVisible is true, then print Picture is visible. When we write if statements, we must use the curly braces to enclose our logic. It is a good practice to put the opening curly brace ({) on the same line as the if statement and the closing curly brace (}) on the line immediately after your logic.

When writing if statements using a bool, you are always checking for true; however, if you wanted to check for false, you would do the following:

Bools work great with...

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