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You're reading from Learn Swift by Building Applications Explore Swift programming through iOS app development

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463920

Length 366 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (2):

Giordano Scalzo

Emil Atanasov

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Swift Basics – Variables and Functions FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Familiar with Xcode and Playgrounds

3. Creating a Minimal Mobile App

4. Structures, Classes, and Inheritance

5. Adding Interactivity to Your First App

6. How to Use Data Structures, OOP, and Protocols

7. Developing a Simple Weather App

8. Introducing CocoaPods and Project Dependencies

9. Improving a Version of a Weather App

10. Building an Instagram-Like App

11. Instagram-Like App Continued

12. Contributing to an Open Source Project

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Installing Xcode

First, Xcode runs on macOS only. This means you have to find a macOS-compatible computer that is running macOS 10.13 or later.

It is possible to have macOS running on a virtual machine, but having a hardware one is better.

We will install Xcode version 9.3. This is the latest version available in the App Store at the moment, but it may change in the near future, so no worries if you install a slightly newer version. The IDE looks the same way.

Start your computer and open the App Store application. This application is used to download extra software on to your macOS. You can find its icon on the dock, as shown here:

Once you've clicked the icon, you should see the App Store application displayed. At the top-right corner, there is a search field. Select it and start typing Xcode. You will see many suggestions as shown in the following screenshot:

Select...

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Authors (2)

Emil Atanasov

Emil Atanasov is an IT consultant who has extensive experience with mobile technologies. He started working in the field of mobile development in 2006. He runs his own contracting and consulting company, serving clients from around the world—Appose Studio Inc. He is an MSc graduate from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria. He has been a contractor for several large companies in the US and UK, serving variously as team leader, project manager, iOS developer, and Android developer.

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Giordano Scalzo

Giordano Scalzo is a developer with 20 years of programming experience, since the days of ZX Spectrum. He has worked in Swift, Objective-C, C/C++, Java, .Net, Ruby, Python, and in a ton of other languages that he has forgotten the names of. After years of backend development, over the past 10 years, Giordano has developed extensively for iOS, releasing more than 20 apps—apps that he wrote for clients, enterprise applications, or on his own. He is currently a Tech Lead Consultant in London, where he leads mobile digital transformations through his company, Effective Code Ltd.

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