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Swift Essentials

You're reading from   Swift Essentials Get up and running lightning fast with this practical guide to building applications with Swift

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781784396701
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bandlem Limited Bandlem Limited
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Alex Blewitt Alex Blewitt
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Swift classes, protocols, and enums

Almost all Swift applications will be object oriented. Chapter 1, Exploring Swift, and Chapter 2, Playing with Swift, both demonstrated functional and procedural Swift code. Classes such as Process from the CoreFoundation framework, and UIColor and UIImage from the UIKit framework were used to demonstrate how classes can be used in applications. This section describes how to create classes, protocols, and enums in Swift.

Classes in Swift

A class is created in Swift using the class keyword and braces are used to enclose the class body. The body can contain variables called properties as well as functions called methods, which are collectively referred to as members. Instance members are unique to each instance, while class members are shared between all instances of that class.

Classes are typically defined in a file named for the class; so a GitHubRepository class can be defined in the GitHubRepository.swift file. A new Swift file can be created by navigating...

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