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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from Swift Cookbook Over 60 proven recipes for developing better iOS applications with Swift 5.3

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839211195

Length 500 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (3):

Chris Barker

Keith D. Moon

Keith Moon

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Swift Building Blocks

2. Mastering the Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER

3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow

4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types

5. Beyond the Standard Library

6. Building iOS Apps with Swift

7. Swift Playgrounds

8. Server-Side Swift

9. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

10. SwiftUI and Combine Framework

11. Using CoreML and Vision in Swift

12. About Packt

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Working with XML

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language and is a popular way of representing data for storage and transfer across a network. XML is a very flexible format and is used to represent many types of data. The current specification of HTML, which powers most of the web, is an implementation of XML.

The version of XML that we will concern ourselves with in this recipe is RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is used to define a collection of time-ordered pieces of digestible content; these RSS feeds can then be used to aggregate content from a number of different sources. RSS is typically used as a distribution mechanism for news articles and podcasts.

In this recipe, we will learn how to read and write XML data by fetching and parsing the BBC News RSS feed.

Getting ready

The functionality to deal with XML data is provided by the Foundation framework. However, while the classes that help with reading XML data are available on all of Apple's platforms, the...

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Authors (3)

D. Moon

D. Moon

Keith D. Moon is an award-winning mobile application developer who has worked with some of the largest music artists and brands to create engaging and personal mobile experiences. Keith has worked with international brands, including the BBC, Expedia, O2, and Sony Music, using the latest technologies and development practices to create mobile apps that provide value for both the user and brand.

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Keith Moon

Keith Moon

Keith Moon is an award-winning iOS developer, author and speaker based in London. He has worked with some of the biggest companies in the world to create engaging and personal mobile experiences. Keith has been developing in Swift since its release, working on projects both fully Swift, and mixed Swift and Objective-C. Keith has been invited to speak about Swift development in conferences from Moscow to Minsk and London.

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Chris Barker

Chris Barker

Chris Barker is an iOS developer and tech lead for fashion retailer N Brown (JD Williams, SimplyBe, Jacamo), where he heads up the iOS team. Chris started his career developing .NET applications for online retailer dabs (now BT Shop) before he made his move into mobile app development with digital agency Openshadow (now MyStudioFactory Paris). There, he worked on mobile apps for clients such as Louis Vuitton, L'Oréal Paris, and the Paris Metro. Chris often attends and speaks at local iOS developer meetups and conferences such as NSManchester, Malaga Mobile, and CodeMobile.

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