iOS Developer
Notes for Professionals
iOS®
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Notes for Professionals
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Chapter 1: Getting started with iOS Development
Section 1.1: Creating a default Single View Application
Section 1.2: Hello World
Section 1.3: Xcode Interface
Section 1.4: Create your first program in Swift 3
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Chapter 2: UILabel
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Section 2.1: Create a UILabel
Section 2.2: Number of Lines
Section 2.3: Set Font
Section 2.4: Text Color
Section 2.5: Background Color
Section 2.6: Size to fit
Section 2.7: Text alignment
Section 2.8: Calculate Content Bounds (for i.e. dynamic cell heights)
Section 2.9: Label Attributed Text
Section 2.10: Clickable Label
Section 2.11: Variable height using constraints
Section 2.12: LineBreakMode
Section 2.13: Add shadows to text
Section 2.14: Changing Text in an Existing Label
Section 2.15: Auto-size label to fit text
Section 2.16: Get UILabel's size strictly based on its text and font
Section 2.17: Highlighted and Highlighted Text Color
Section 2.18: Justify Text
Section 2.19: Dynamic label frame from unknown text length
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Chapter 3: UILabel text underlining
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Section 3.1: Underlining a text in a UILabel using Objective C
Section 3.2: Underlining a text in UILabel using Swift
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Chapter 4: attributedText in UILabel
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Section 4.1: HTML text in UILabel
Section 4.2: Set dierent property to text in single UILabel
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Chapter 5: UIButton
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Section 5.1: Creating a UIButton
Section 5.2: Attaching a Method to a Button
Section 5.3: Setting Font
Section 5.4: Set Image
Section 5.5: Get UIButton's size strictly based on its text and font
Section 5.6: Disabling a UIButton
Section 5.7: Set title
Section 5.8: Set title color
Section 5.9: Horizontally aligning contents
Section 5.10: Getting the title label
Section 5.11: Adding an action to an UIButton via Code (programmatically)
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Chapter 6: UIDatePicker
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Section 6.1: Create a Date Picker
Section 6.2: Setting Minimum-Maximum Date
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Section 6.3: Modes
Section 6.4: Setting minute interval
Section 6.5: Count Down Duration
Chapter 7: UILocalNotification
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Section 7.1: Scheduling a local notification
Section 7.2: Presenting a local notification immediately
Section 7.3: Managing local notifications using UUID
Section 7.4: Registering for local notifications
Section 7.5: what's new in UILocalNotification with iOS10
Section 7.6: Responding to received local notification
Section 7.7: Register and Schedule Local Notification in Swift 3.0 (iOS 10)
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Chapter 8: UIImage
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Section 8.1: Creating UIImage
Section 8.2: Comparing Images
Section 8.3: Gradient Image with Colors
Section 8.4: Convert UIImage to/from base64 encoding
Section 8.5: Take a Snapshot of a UIView
Section 8.6: Change UIImage Color
Section 8.7: Apply UIColor to UIImage
Section 8.8: Creating and Initializing Image Objects with file contents
Section 8.9: Resizable image with caps
Section 8.10: Gradient Background Layer for Bounds
Chapter 9: Convert NSAttributedString to UIImage
Section 9.1: NSAttributedString to UIImage Conversion
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Chapter 10: UIImagePickerController
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Section 10.1: Generic usage of UIImagePickerController
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Chapter 11: UIImageView
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Section 11.1: UIImage masked with Label
Section 11.2: Making an image into a circle or rounded
Section 11.3: How the Mode property aects an image
Section 11.4: Animating a UIImageView
Section 11.5: Create a UIImageView
Section 11.6: Change color of an image
Section 11.7: Assigning an image to a UIImageView
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Chapter 12: Resizing UIImage
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Section 12.1: Resize any image by size & quality
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Chapter 13: Cut a UIImage into a circle
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Section 13.1: Cut a image into a circle - Objective C
Section 13.2: SWIFT 3 Example
Chapter 14: UITableView
Section 14.1: Self-Sizing Cells
Section 14.2: Custom Cells
Section 14.3: Separator Lines
Section 14.4: Delegate and Datasource
Section 14.5: Creating a UITableView
Section 14.6: Swipe to Delete Rows
Section 14.7: Expanding & Collapsing UITableViewCells
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Chapter 15: UITableViewController
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Section 15.1: TableView with dynamic properties with tableviewCellStyle basic
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Section 15.2: TableView with Custom Cell
Chapter 16: UIRefreshControl TableView
Section 16.1: Set up refreshControl on tableView:
Section 16.2: Objective-C Example
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Chapter 17: UITableViewCell
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Section 17.1: Xib file of UITableViewCell
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Chapter 18: Custom methods of selection of UITableViewCells
Section 18.1: Distinction between single and double selection on row
Chapter 19: Custom methods of selection of UITableViewCells
Section 19.1: Distinction between single and double selection on row
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Chapter 20: UIView
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Section 20.1: Make the view rounded
Section 20.2: Using IBInspectable and IBDesignable
Section 20.3: Taking a snapshot
Section 20.4: Create a UIView
Section 20.5: Shake a View
Section 20.6: Utilizing Intrinsic Content Size
Section 20.7: Programmatically manage UIView insertion and deletion into and from another UIView
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Section 20.8: Create UIView using Autolayout
Section 20.9: Animating a UIView
Section 20.10: UIView extension for size and frame attributes
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Chapter 21: Snapshot of UIView
Section 21.1: Getting the Snapshot
Section 21.2: Snapshot with subview with other markup and text
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Chapter 22: UIAlertController
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Section 22.1: AlertViews with UIAlertController
Section 22.2: Action Sheets with UIAlertController
Section 22.3: Adding Text Field in UIAlertController like a prompt Box
Section 22.4: Highlighting an action button
Section 22.5: Displaying and handling alerts
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Chapter 23: UIColor
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Section 23.1: Creating a UIColor
Section 23.2: Creating a UIColor from hexadecimal number or string
Section 23.3: Color with Alpha component
Section 23.4: Undocumented Methods
Section 23.5: UIColor from an image pattern
Section 23.6: Lighter and Darker Shade of a given UIColor
Section 23.7: Make user defined attributes apply the CGColor datatype
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Chapter 24: UITextView
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Section 24.1: Set attributed text
Section 24.2: Change font
Section 24.3: Auto Detect Links, Addresses, Dates, and more
Section 24.4: Change text
Section 24.5: Change text alignment
Section 24.6: UITextViewDelegate methods
Section 24.7: Change text color
Section 24.8: Remove extra paddings to fit to a precisely measured text
Section 24.9: Getting and Setting the Cursor Postition
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Section 24.10: UITextView with HTML text
Section 24.11: Check to see if empty or nil
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Chapter 25: UITextField Delegate
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Section 25.1: Actions when a user has started/ended interacting with a textfield
Section 25.2: UITextField - Restrict textfield to certain characters
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Chapter 26: UINavigationController
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Section 26.1: Embed a view controller in a navigation controller programmatically
Section 26.2: Popping in a Navigation Controller
Section 26.3: Purpose
Section 26.4: Pushing a view controller onto the navigation stack
Section 26.5: Creating a NavigationController
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Chapter 27: UIGestureRecognizer
Section 27.1: UITapGestureRecognizer
Section 27.2: UITapGestureRecognizer (Double Tap)
Section 27.3: Adding a Gesture recognizer in the Interface Builder
Section 27.4: UILongPressGestureRecognizer
Section 27.5: UISwipeGestureRecognizer
Section 27.6: UIPinchGestureRecognizer
Section 27.7: UIRotationGestureRecognizer
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Chapter 28: UIBarButtonItem
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Section 28.1: Creating a UIBarButtonItem in the Interface Builder
Section 28.2: Creating a UIBarButtonItem
Section 28.3: Bar Button Item Original Image with no Tint Color
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Chapter 29: UIScrollView
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Section 29.1: Scrolling content with Auto Layout enabled
Section 29.2: Create a UIScrollView
Section 29.3: ScrollView with AutoLayout
Section 29.4: Detecting when UIScrollView finished scrolling with delegate methods
Section 29.5: Enable/Disable Scrolling
Section 29.6: Zoom In/Out UIImageView
Section 29.7: Scroll View Content Size
Section 29.8: Restrict scrolling direction
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Chapter 30: UIStackView
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Section 30.1: Center Buttons with UIStackview
Section 30.2: Create a horizontal stack view programmatically
Section 30.3: Create a vertical stack view programmatically
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Chapter 31: Dynamically updating a UIStackView
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Section 31.1: Connect the UISwitch to an action we can animate switching between a horizontal or vertical
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Chapter 32: UIScrollView with StackView child
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Section 32.1: A complex StackView inside Scrollview Example
Section 32.2: Preventing ambiguous layout
Section 32.3: Scrolling to content inside nested StackViews
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Chapter 33: UIScrollView AutoLayout
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Section 33.1: ScrollableController
Section 33.2: UIScrollView dynamic content size through Storyboard
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Chapter 34: UITextField
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Section 34.1: Get Keyboard Focus and Hide Keyboard
Section 34.2: Dismiss keyboard when user pushes the return button
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Section 34.3: Hide blinking caret
Section 34.4: Input accessory view (toolbar)
Section 34.5: Moving scroll when UITextView becomes first responder
Section 34.6: KeyboardType
Section 34.7: Change placeholder color and font
Section 34.8: Replace keyboard with UIPickerView
Section 34.9: Create a UITextField
Section 34.10: Getting and Setting the Cursor Position
Section 34.11: Dismiss Keyboard
Section 34.12: Initialize text field
Section 34.13: Autocapitalization
Section 34.14: Set Alignment
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Chapter 35: Custom UITextField
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Section 35.1: Custom UITextField for Filtering Input Text
Section 35.2: Custom UITextField to Disallow All Actions like Copy, Paste, etc
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Chapter 36: UIViewController
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Section 36.1: Subclassing
Section 36.2: Access the container view controller
Section 36.3: Set the view programmatically
Section 36.4: Instantiate from a Storyboard
Section 36.5: Create an instance
Section 36.6: Adding/removing a child view controller
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Chapter 37: UISwitch
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Section 37.1: Set Image for On/O state
Section 37.2: Set On / O
Section 37.3: Set Background Color
Section 37.4: Set Tint Color
Chapter 38: UICollectionView
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Section 38.1: Create a UICollectionView
Section 38.2: UICollectionView - Datasource
Section 38.3: Basic Swift example of a Collection View
Section 38.4: Manage Multiple Collection view with DataSource and Flowlayout
Section 38.5: UICollectionViewDelegate setup and item selection
Section 38.6: Create a Coll...