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iOS Programming Cookbook

You're reading from iOS Programming Cookbook Over 50 exciting and powerful recipes to help you unearth the promise of iOS programming

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460981

Length 520 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Author (1):

Hossam Ghareeb

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

iOS Programming Cookbook

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About the Author

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Preface

1. Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER

2. The Essentials

3. Integrating with Messages App

4. Working with Interface Builder

5. Working with UITableView

6. Animations and Graphics

7. Multimedia

8. Concurrency

9. Location Services

10. Security and Encryption

11. Networking

12. Persisting Data with Core Data

13. Notifications

14. App Search

15. Optimizing Performance

Using Touch ID for user authentication

The fingerprint, also known as Touch ID from a developer's perspective, is one of the greatest features in new Apple devices, starting from iPhone 5s, and now in modern android devices as well. Most people think that Touch ID is used for authenticating the user to unlock their devices only but, actually in iOS, you can use it to unlock the device, make payments, authenticate a user for apps that support Touch ID, and download apps from the App Store. In this recipe, we will see how to integrate Touch ID in an iOS app to authenticate the user instead of having them retype their credentials.

Getting ready

Apple provides developers with a framework, called Location Authentication. It handles all heavy tasks for you and takes care of the access sensor and authenticating the user, and gets back to you with a result and error, if any. It's very important to know that the framework doesn't share or expose any information or data, that represents or has a relation...

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Authors (1)

Hossam Ghareeb

Hossam Ghareeb

Hossam Ghareeb is a software engineer who graduated from Alexandria University in 2012. He found his passion in mobile development, especially iOS development. Currently, he is a senior iOS developer at Noon e-commerce in Dubai. Hossam has built his experience by learning tips and tricks from the managers he works with, open source projects, and online tutorials. He discovered that the best way to pay this back is to share his experience with others and help people get experience in iOS development.

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