Migrating to Swift from Android

Chapter    4

Implement Piece by Piece

In the previous chapter, you started with iOS storyboard to lay down the groundwork using navigation patterns. It resulted in a set of connected UIViewController classes set in an MVC framework that mapped to Android counterpart fragments.

In this chapter, you are going to implement each view-controller pair, one piece at a time, with a detailed user interface and business logic that should already be present in the counterpart Android Fragment and the layout file. You will also focus on the following common programming-task mappings from iOS to Android:

• User interface and common UI widgets
• Persistent storage options
• Network and remote services with JSON

User Interface

All those storyboard scenes that you ...