Want to build a clean & simple iOS app using Core Data? Something beginner-friendly? This template shows you exactly that.

• It creates a Book App using the exact same skin of my App Store published app - Bhagavad Gita interpretation
• Shows you how to read a JSON and display its contents as a list of chapters using a UITableView
• Allows you to tap on each chapter to show its contents
• Is fully customizable since you have to just replace the JSON with your content and your app is ready
• Is beginner-friendly since the code is simple & well documented
• Works well in light and dark mode
• Is App Store ready
• Exact same source code is used in my published app - Bhagavad Gita interpretation https://apps.apple.com/in/app/bhagavad-gita-interpretation/id1488898377! (does not contain Widget and in-app purchase code)

• Create a simple and minimal book app & read through its chapters
• Highlight functionality - long press on any content you want to highlight & tap on the 'highlight' menu item
• Bookmark functionality - bookmark at any place to come back later and continue reading
• Learn to use a custom font (the app uses Georgia)
• Understand how to set up & use Core Data
• Shows how to use UITableViewDiffableDataSource & trailingSwipeActionsConfigurationForRowAt delegate method 
• Shows how to open a share sheet
• Shows techniques for asking user reviews through Apple's requestReview methods
• Shows how to use cell.defaultContentConfiguration() instead of textLabel & detailTextLabel that are marked to be deprecated in the future.
• Supports Dynamic Type & VoiceOver operations
• Easy to re-skin
• Beautiful and professional looking design

• Tested on Xcode 13
• Works on iOS 14, iOS 15 and has a minimum deployment target of iOS 13

Xcode

1. Download the My-Book_App_Code.zip and unzip
2. Go inside the project, double click on My Book.xcodeproj to open in Xcode
3. Go to the project's Target and change the Signing & Capabilities & change the Bundle Identifier and Team Section
4. Run the app.
5. Refer to the app documentation - My-Book_App_Documentation.pdf to know what each class does.