Chapter    5

Product Category

The Beauty & Me sample app that accompanies this book presents products to users in a traditional way. First of all, we let users sell all brands we are carrying. If you don’t know any brand, I will make up some, such as Origins, NUDE Skincare, etc. Under each brand, we have all products. When a user selects a product, the app displays the product detail. This chapter introduces the brand, or a more general name, product category.

In iOS app development, Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a widely used design pattern. I have structured the remaining chapters such that they follow this MVC pattern: first, I present the models used for implementing the feature discussed, then the views, and finally the controllers when ...

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