You're reading from Mastering Swift 3 Build incredible apps for iOS and OS X

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466129

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Author (1):

Jon Hoffman

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Taking the First Steps with Swift FREE CHAPTER

2. Learning About Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators

3. Using Swift Collections and the Tuple Type

4. Control Flow and Functions

5. Classes and Structures

6. Using Protocols and Protocol Extensions

7. Protocol-Oriented Design

8. Writing Safer Code with Availability and Error Handling

9. Custom Subscripting

10. Using Optional Types

11. Working with Generics

12. Working with Closures

13. Using Mix and Match

14. Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift

15. Swift Formatting and Style Guide

16. Swifts Core Libraries

17. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift

Chapter 16. Swifts Core Libraries

I was really excited when Apple announced that they were going to release a version of Swift for Linux, so I could use Swift for my Linux and embedded development as well as my Mac OS and iOS development. When Apple first released Swift 2.2 for Linux, I was very excited but I was also a little disappointed because I could not read/write files, access network services, or use libdispatch (GCD) on Linux like I could on Apple's platforms. With the release of Swift 3, Apple has corrected this with the release of Swift's core libraries.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

What are the Swift Core Libraries?
How to use Apple's URL loading system?
How to use the Formatter classes?
How to use the FileManager class?
How to serialize and deserialize JSON data?

The Swift Core Libraries are written to provide a rich set of APIs that are consistent across the various platforms that Swift supports. By using these libraries, developers...

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