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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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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 11^th 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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Authors (3)

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 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 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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