IOS 9 Programming Fundamentals with Swift Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics |
|
| Author:
| Neuburg, Matt |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4919-3677-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2015 |
| Publisher: | O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $49.99USD $49.99 |
Book Description:
|
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift 2.0--the latest version of Apple's acclaimed programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you'll learn Swift's object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple's development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functionality iOS apps need to have.
Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift 2.0--the latest version of Apple's acclaimed programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you'll learn Swift's object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple's development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functionality iOS apps need to have.
- Explore Swift's object-oriented concepts: variables and functions, scopes and namespaces, object types and instances
- Become familiar with built-in Swift types such as numbers, strings, ranges, tuples, Optionals, arrays, dictionaries, and sets
- Learn how to declare, instantiate, and customize Swift object types--enums, structs, and classes
- Discover powerful Swift features such as protocols and generics
- Catch up on Swift 2.0 innovations: option sets, protocol extensions, error handling, guard statements, availability checks, and more
- Tour the lifecycle of an Xcode project from inception to App Store
- Create app interfaces with nibs and the nib editor, Interface Builder
- Understand Cocoa's event-driven model and its major design patterns and features
- Find out how Swift communicates with Cocoa's C and Objective-C APIs
Once you master the fundamentals, you'll be ready to tackle the details of iOS app development with author Matt Neuburg's companion guide, Programming iOS 9.