Swift Essentials: Get up and running lightning fast with this practical guide to building applications with Swift

Bandlem Limited

Alex Blewitt

$9.99 ~~$32.99~~

4.8 (4 Ratings)

eBook Dec 2014 228 pages 1st Edition

Bandlem Limited

Alex Blewitt

$9.99 ~~$32.99~~

4.8 (4 Ratings)

eBook Dec 2014 228 pages 1st Edition

What do you get with eBook?

Instant access to your Digital eBook purchase

Download this book in EPUB and PDF formats

Access this title in our online reader with advanced features

DRM FREE - Read whenever, wherever and however you want

View table of contents

Preview Book

Description

Whether you are a seasoned Objective-C developer or new to the Xcode platform, Swift Essentials will provide you with all you need to know to get started with the language. Prior experience with iOS development is not necessary, but will be helpful to get the most out of the book.

What you will learn

Explore the nuts and bolts of the Swift syntax
Test Swift code interactively with the REPL
Display graphics with QuickLook in the Swift playground
Present data in masterdetail applications
Use the Swift storyboard to manage multiscreen applications
Create graphical UIViews with Swift
Parse JSON and XML data from network sources
Build a standalone iOS application from start to finish

What do you get with eBook?

Instant access to your Digital eBook purchase

Download this book in EPUB and PDF formats

Access this title in our online reader with advanced features

DRM FREE - Read whenever, wherever and however you want

Frequently bought together

$54.99

AngularJS Web application development Cookbook

$54.99

Total $ 164.97

Charles Nichols Mar 22, 2015

Great book! I've been programming in multiple languages and platforms for years so I mostly skimmed this book for little missing bits and pieces to get me up to speed; the book walks you through the details very well. If you're doing hardcore app development in XCode and know the environment very well, which I don't, it may not be the book for you, but I'd still recommend it as a good walk through paired with Apple's Swift documentation if you have any Swift application development questions; although, you'll likely find what you need online as more people start using it. If you are an occasional Apple developer or new and want to get up to speed in XCode doing application development using Swift this book is a great place to start.

Amazon Verified review

Matteo Jan 24, 2015

This book provides you a learning path from zero to an intermediate complexity iOS app to get the ropes of the language up to a decent level. Every step is explained in extensive detail so that you never feel lost within the code. If you never coded on OSX you won't feel lost as the first chapters provide every little bit you need to start code using xCode playgrounds up to proper iOS/OSX coding. The sole requirement is obviously a recent Mac to do the code demos along with a up-to-date xCode installation.

Damir Arh Feb 14, 2015

The author kept the initial introduction to the basic language syntax really brief and quickly made it more interesting and rewarding by replacing the command line REPL environment with Xcode integrated development environment and its playgrounds - a feature which provides a highly interactive environment for experimenting with the language. Not only that: he moved on to development of basic iOS applications, even before he covered all of the language features; introducing many of them only when they were first encountered in sample code.Major part of the book is actually a step by step guide to iOS development in Swift for complete beginners. By the end of it the readers should have enough knowledge to write their first simple iOS application even without any previous experience. Along the way all the key concepts of the API are explained in detail, as well as a couple of peculiarities originating from the Objective-C era which could cause memory leaks or prematurely released memory, if not handled correctly. Even unit testing of Swift code was mentioned and encouraged.The only thing I missed, was a more in-depth discussion of the language features and how they will impact the way the code will be written in it. Though, considering the target audience, it's not really fair to hold that against it. If nothing else, it makes up for it with a very extensive list of resources about Swift and iOS development which should satisfy even the most curious reader.

Raúl Feb 26, 2015

I enjoyed reading this book as it gave me some interesting tips of how to approach swift from another perspective, the command line script/compiled side of the language, which could lead to interesting backend tools that increase developers productivity.Another interesting section I was pleased to read lied within the realm of the playground, a scripting terminal with steroids I would like to call, of which the books explains methodically without going into much detail of the magic behind.With this book, you will learn to do custom views, networking, xml/json parsing, story boards, but the part I considered more important was its whole app as a GIT repository viewer, of course everything handled using swift as core language.However, I consider a big downside that the book does not include any chapters regarding unit test, or advanced swift topics (aka Functional or reactive); being said that, I would recommend it for developers of any platform, for those that have read the Apple swift books.

Swift Essentials: Get up and running lightning fast with this practical guide to building applications with Swift

What do you get with eBook?