Introducing Softwareitis

In order to keep it fun and light, we will be developing a clinical research app for a fictitious disease called Softwareitis. This disease is characterized by the constant need to download and try new apps in the smartphone. Throughout this book, we will be building the Softwareitis research app to demonstrate various aspects of ResearchKit.

You can find the Softwareitis.xcodeproj Xcode project in the Chapter_2/Softwareitis folder of the RKBook GitHub repository. Open it in Xcode and make yourself familiar with this simple app, especially the TableViewController.swift file.

As you can see, the app has just one table view controller with each row of the table view representing a Softwareitis task that a user needs to perform. Currently, it has a demo task, Hello World, which we created in the HelloWorldRK app. Throughout the book, we will be adding new tasks by adding methods to the TableViewController Softwareitis Tasks extension and adding entries to rows in the...