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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift Cookbook Proven recipes for developing robust iOS applications with Swift 5.9

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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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Danny Bolella is an iOS Developer Lead at a major financial services firm. With over a decade of experience under his belt, he's worked on everything from full-stack web to mobile apps in a variety of industries, including financial, energy, and medical devices. He also enjoys writing articles and was the technical reviewer for SwiftUI Cookbook, First and Second Editions. Danny thanks his amazing wife and children, who give him the motivation and drive to always be better.
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Nathan Lawlor is a highly skilled iOS developer with many years of experience, initially starting his career as an apprentice in web development. Nathan has worked as a professional software developer in the home and fashion retail industry, with N Brown Group plc., and is now working in the automotive industry, with Jaguar Land Rover. He has published his own independent apps to the Apple App Store and regularly posts articles on his blog. Nathan has a passion for exploring new technologies and finding ways to improve code quality and best practices.
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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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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Swift Fundamentals 2. Chapter 2: Mastering the Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Data Wrangling with Swift 4. Chapter 4: Generics, Operators, and Nested Types 5. Chapter 5: Beyond the Standard Library 6. Chapter 6: Understanding Concurrency in Swift 7. Chapter 7: Building iOS Apps with UIKit 8. Chapter 8: Building iOS Apps with SwiftUI 9. Chapter 9: Getting to Grips with Combine 10. Chapter 10: Using CoreML and Vision in Swift 11. Chapter 11: Immersive Swift with ARKit and Augmented Reality 12. Chapter 12: Visualizing Data with Swift Charts 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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’...

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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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Nathan Lawlor is a highly skilled iOS developer with many years of experience, initially starting his career as an apprentice in web development. Nathan has worked as a professional software developer in the home and fashion retail industry, with N Brown Group plc., and is now working in the automotive industry, with Jaguar Land Rover. He has published his own independent apps to the Apple App Store and regularly posts articles on his blog. Nathan has a passion for exploring new technologies and finding ways to improve code quality and best practices.
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Danny Bolella is an iOS Developer Lead at a major financial services firm. With over a decade of experience under his belt, he's worked on everything from full-stack web to mobile apps in a variety of industries, including financial, energy, and medical devices. He also enjoys writing articles and was the technical reviewer for SwiftUI Cookbook, First and Second Editions. Danny thanks his amazing wife and children, who give him the motivation and drive to always be better.
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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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