Advanced iOS: Volume 1 - All source code updated to Swift 5

Explore how Swift 3 reorganizes method calls by requiring parameter labels, omitting needless words, and shortening names, contrasting with Swift 2.2 and highlighting deprecated constructs and syntax changes.

Explore Swift 3's naming and type system changes, including lower camel case for properties and parameters, dropping NS prefixes, and converting many foundation types to value types.

Build a photo and voice app called happy days in Swift 5. Implement a collection view with a permissions screen and iOS 10 speech transcription stored as spotlight entries.

Learn to implement a three-permission flow for photos, microphone, and speech recognition in iOS, coordinating asynchronous callbacks on the main thread to chain requests and update the interface.

Load memories from disk, import photos with the image picker, and display thumbnails in a two-section collection view with a top search header for fast scrolling.

Learn to convert voice to text with the S.F. speech recognizer, handling asynchronous transcription via closures, using isFinal, and accessing the transcriptions array for the best transcription.

Index transcribed memories in spotlight by linking audio transcriptions to photos and adding a thumbnail for searchable memory results.

Implement in-app search using cssearchquery to filter memories via a filtered memories array, integrate spotlight results, and update the collection view as the user types and confirms input.

Explore building an AI time share as an iOS message extension, integrating with store kit and Apple Pay, and crafting a three-controller interface for creating events and voting.

Create a storyboard controller with the create event id, showing a table view, a date picker inside a view, and stack with add date and save to send to friends.

Learn to receive and decode messages by loading dates and votes from encoded payloads, parsing query items, and updating the UI when a message bubble is tapped.

Add Siri support by implementing resolve pickup and drop off locations, handle ride requests, and manage in ride status with vehicle details, enabling Siri to book and track rides.

Explore how iOS 10 introduces today extensions on the lock screen and 3D touch quick actions, and set up the Polyglot app with a table view in Swift 5.

Load a vocabulary list from user defaults into a table view, display English words, and reveal French equivalents on tap by splitting entries at a double colon.

Add, delete, and save custom English-French words in a Swift iOS flashcard app by prompting input with a UI alert, updating the words array and table view, and persisting changes.

Build a today extension widget on the lock screen to mirror core language learning features, and set up the widget with a table view and data source and delegate connections.

Demonstrate the Iowas 10 animation framework for interactive reversible animations and add a test mode showing a French word with the English answer in green.

Configure a three-section table view with static cells, customize text fields and headers, wrap a date picker for auto layout, and add image attachment via a tappable image view.

Wire three table view controllers in a storyboard—main, group, and alarm—by subclassing UITableViewController and linking outlets, delegates, and actions for text fields, switch, date picker, and image taps.

Create alarm and group model classes with id, name, caption, time, image, and enabled flags, with initializers and ns coding; reflect enabled status via color in the group view.

Configure the cell for row at to load four cell types using a create group cell method, with editable text and switch cells, and manage switches via tags for alarms.

Edit alarms in alarm view controller by updating name, description, and time, attach pictures via the image picker, save images to documents directory, and persist changes with user defaults.

Learners implement robust data persistence by encoding alarm and group objects with NSCoding and NSKeyedArchiver, save changes via Notification Center from multiple UI events.

Implement save and load in the view controller using the documents directory and ASCII archiver; call save on data changes, load in viewWillAppear, and observe save notifications.

Learn to adopt the new notification framework, request permission, and schedule local notifications for alarms with calendar triggers, including attachments and repeating alerts.

Learn to configure rich iOS notifications with custom actions—show group, destroy group, and rename group—using UNNotificationAction and UNTextInputNotificationAction, register the alarm category in didFinishLaunching, and handle responses via a delegate.

Implement the notification center delegate methods to handle will present and did receive, then provide display, destroy, and rename for groups, safely unwrap user info and action identifiers for responses.

Build the flip game, a reversi clone, using sprite kit and the iOS 10 Monte Carlo strategist in gameplay kit for high-performance AI on an 8x8 board.

Set up the 8x8 board with a background, then define a stone color enum and a stone sprite class with black, white, and thinking textures, and place stones diagonally.

Add two model classes, player and move, with color and position; include a players array and opponent property; update the board model to track the current player for legal moves.

Implement and test the board's can_move in swift 5 to enforce two‑player rules by checking bounds, emptiness, and at least one capture in eight directions, with touch handling.

Adapt a Reversi board for game play kit by implementing GK game model support, get scores, legal moves, apply moves, and safely typecast GK players to our player.

Create SpriteKit tile maps by building a tile set and adjacency group for grass and mud. Paint and flood fill with the Xcode map editor, then add a camera node.

Build a two-tier war game by creating a game item base class and unit and base subclasses, assign ownership and z-order, and set up red and blue tanks.

Place game bases on the map in a 3x3 grid, adding a bases property and integrating into the create starting layout, with adjustments to y coordinates and landscape rotation.

Visualize user selection by displaying a rotating selection marker over the chosen item, using a sprite, alpha, and property observers to show or hide selection as you tap and deselect.

Select a unit and reveal possible moves and attacks with a reusable grid of 41 white squares, colored white for moves and red for attacks, via an array extension.

Add a fixed menu bar in the game scene to show the current player and provide capture, build, and turn controls, with show and hide logic tied to item selection.

Capture bases and build units in a turn-based tank game, using a set owner method, end-turn logic, color blending, and base-specific build rules to drive gameplay.

Start, pause, stop, and reverse animations with the UI view property animator, including continuing with timing parameters and the model versus presentation layer dynamics.

Explore animation completion in iOS, showing how the stop animation method updates the model layer to match the presentation layer, and how finishing the animation can occur independently of stopping.

Switch to a spring animation with the view property animator to make the box fly and bounce, while adding a gesture recognizer to detect taps during motion.