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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211195
Length 500 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Chris Barker Chris Barker
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Keith D. Moon Keith D. Moon
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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 13. Other Books You May Enjoy
Swift Building Blocks

Since Apple announced the Swift programming language at WWDC 2014, it has gone on to become one of the fastest-growing programming languages. TIOBE is a company that measures software quality and publishes a ranking index of programming language usage. At the time of writing, Swift ranks as the 11th most popular language on this index. This is two places higher than when the first edition of this book was written (visit http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index).

Swift is a modern, general-purpose programming language that focuses on type safety and expressive and concise syntax. Positioned as a modern replacement for Objective-C, it has taken over from that older language as the future of development on Apple's platforms.

Occupying this niche alone would ensure Swift's place as a useful and important programming language. However, Apple's decision...

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