Advanced iOS: Volume Two

iOS gives us a whole range of powerful tools to build intelligent apps, and this book helps you get started with them as quickly as possible: Core ML, Vision, ARKit, and more.


- Machine Learning: Take advantage of Core ML to deliver intelligent new apps that can proactively assist your users.


- ARKit: Learn how to augment reality with slick interactive graphics thanks to Apple's new ARKit framework.


- Drag & Drop: Let users move data freely inside your app and others too using powerful new multi-touch gestures.


Plus: NFC reading, PDFKit, Vision, MusicKit, and more!


Advanced iOS: Volume Two includes seven new projects that teach a variety of power features in iOS, plus technique projects that deep-dive into smaller features:


- Project 1: Trade my Tesla – Teach iOS how to evaluate the trade-in price of cars using machine learning.


- Project 2: Sightspotter – Blend augmented reality with Core Location to help tourists find their way around a city.


- Project 3: Going Postal – Create fun postcards using images, text, and colors, all powered by iOS's drag and drop APIs.


- Project 4: Swift Sampler – Learn to render PDFs with watermarks and interactive thumbnails, all using PDFKit.


- Project 5: Picture Protector – Build an app that detects faces in photos and lets users interactively blur any they want.


- Project 6: Name that Tune – Use MusicKit to fetch data from Apple Music and build a fast-paced two-player charts game.


- Project 7: Video X-Ray – Let users record a video while the Vision framework silently detects and records all objects in the scene.


Along the way you'll learn all this and more:


- How to use Core ML and the Vision framework to leverage machine learning in your own apps.


- Building both games and apps from scratch using ARKit's augmented reality technology.


- How to integrate drag and drop into your apps using table views, collection views, and more


- The all-new PDFKit framework, delivering fast and efficient PDF rendering on iOS.


- Using the new depth-mapping APIs exposed through the iPhone camera.


- Automatically detecting and blurring faces using the Vision framework.


- Reading NFC tags using Core NFC.


- Taking advantage of the new MusicKit APIs to work with Apple Music.


- And more – iOS is packed with new features to learn!


If you want to take advantage of the incredible functionality provided in iOS, there's no faster way than Advanced iOS: Volume Two.