App Development Using iOS iCloud : Incorporating CloudKit with Swift in Xcode

Part I - Basic App Building

Chapter 1: About The Book Tracker App

1.1       Overview

1.2       Our Goal and Final Words

Chapter 2: XCode 

2.1       About XCode

2.2       Installation and System Requirements

2.3       Interface Introduction

Chapter 3: CloudKit 

3.1       Setting Up CloudKit

3.2       Exploring CloudKit Dashboard

Chapter 4: Book Tracker App Building

4.1       Setting up the Tab View Controller

4.2       Creating a Tab Application

4.3       Add Book Screen

4.3.1.   Designing the Add Screen

4.3.2.   Assigning The Add View Controller file in Main.storyboard

4.3.3.   Running the Code

4.3.4.   Defining the UI Objects for the Add Screen

4.3.5.   Running the program

4.4       Saving the Book Record in iCloud

4.4.1.   Data Validation is an important step

4.4.2.   Create a database function file

4.4.3.   Preparation before Saving the Book

4.4.4.   Function to save Book Record

4.4.5.   Setting Value before calling saveBook

4.4.6.   Post Save

4.4.7.   Reset Field

4.5       Display the Book Records

4.5.1.   Setting Up Display View Controller

4.5.2.   Assigning The Display View Controller file in Main.storyboard

4.5.3.   Query The Book Table

4.5.4.   Call the Query Book

4.5.5.   Create A Table View

4.5.6.   Detailed Text Label

4.6       Setting a Table Header

4.7       Deleting a Table Record

4.7.1.   Deleting book from CloudKit Database

4.7.2.   Calling the Delete Book Function

4.8       Searching Data Screen

4.8.1.   Create the Search View Controller

4.8.2.   Draw the Search Screen

4.8.3.   Query for all Records to enable Search

4.8.4.   Text field Events, Operations and Display

4.8.5.   Remove Constraints

4.8.6.   Table Functions

Chapter 5: Core Swift Concepts

5.1       Variables

5.2       Basic Types

5.3       Classes, Structures & Objects

5.4       Array

5.5       Scope

5.6       Functions

5.7       Beautifying Strings using NSAttributedString

5.8       Life Cycle Methods

5.9       Type Casting

5.10     Loop Controls

5.11     UI Color

Part II - Advanced App

Chapter 6: iCloud Setup

6.1       Introduction

6.2       Redesigning the UI of the Display Book Screen

6.2.1.   Initial Setup

6.2.2.   Defining UI Objects for the Top Views

6.2.3.   Lifecycle Method and Initia