book--hacking-with-swift/challenges/apple-notes-imitation/Apple Notes Imitation/README.md

Imitation Apple Notes

📝 Note: This challenge was written in the era of iOS before iOS 9. Apple Notes has gotten dramatically richer since then — wonderfully so — but here, we're mainly trying to capture the core note-taking functionality.

🥅 Challenge

Create an imitation of the Apple Notes app using the skills covered so far in the book (and any others 🙂).

How much of the app you imitate is down to you, but I suggest you work through this list:

1. Create a table view controller that lists notes. Place it inside a navigation controller. (Project 1)

2. Tapping on a note should slide in a detail view controller that contains a full-screen text view. (Project 16)

3. Notes should be loaded and saved using NSCoding. You can use UserDefaults if you want, or write to a file. (Project 12)

4. Add some toolbar items to the detail view controller – “delete” and “compose” seem like good choices. (Project 4)

5. Add an action button to the navigation bar in the detail view controller that shares the text using UIActivityViewController. (Project 3)

Once you’ve done those, try using Interface Builder to customize the UI – how close can you make it look like Notes?

Note: the official Apple Notes app supports rich text input and media. Don’t worry about that; focus on plain text.