Beginning Xcode: Swift Edition

Chapter    8

Table and Collection Views

In Chapter 7, you started work on SocialApp, a Twitter client; I presented an in-depth look at building an application structure with storyboards, explaining how to tie scenes together with segues. You also learned about the principles of the model-view-controller design pattern, combining the View element with the Controller element. In addition, you learned about subclassing and how inheritance is an import concept of object-oriented programming. Most important, you worked hard preparing the scenes for SocialApp and tying them all together with segues.

In this age of big data, it seems in every facet of our lives we’re being bombarded by more and more data, and as developers, we often find ourselves ...