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Title: Swift Essentials - Second Edition
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1785888870
ISBN 13: 9781785888878
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: good

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Synopsis

Build breathtaking iOS and OS X apps with all the latest offerings from Swift 2

About This Book

Gets you up and running with Swift programming without any prior iOS development experience.
A fast paced guide showing best practices and lets you get up to speed with Swift to quickly build your own iOS applications
A unique practical approach to make your life with Swift easy.

Who This Book Is For

Are you interested in learning Swift? Do you want to write iOS applications in Swift? If yes, then this is the book for you. No prior iOS programming experience is assumed; however, having some experience with any programming language will be beneficial.

What You Will Learn

Dive into Swift and explore its innovative and powerful syntax
Work with Swift in Xcode to get a unique and productive approach to development
Find out how to create complete iOS applications
Discover rapid prototyping with a Swift playground
Get to know how to use the Swift storyboard to develop multi-page applications
Get to grips with parsing JSON and XML data from network sources
Build a network client for GitHub repositories, with full source code on GitHub

In Detail

Swift was considered one of the biggest innovations last year, and certainly with Swift 2 announced at WWDC in 2015, this segment of the developer space will continue to be hot and dominating.

This is a fast-paced guide to provide an overview of Swift programming and then walks you through in detail how to write iOS applications. Progress through chapters on custom views, networking, parsing and build a complete application as a Git repository, all by using Swift as the core language

About the Author

Dr Alex Blewitt

Dr Alex Blewitt has over 20 years of experience in Objective-C, and he has been using Apple frameworks since NeXTstep 3.0. He upgraded his NeXTstation for a TiBook when Apple released Mac OS X in 2001, and he has been developing on it ever since. Alex currently works for an investment bank in London, writes for the online technology news site InfoQ, and has published two other books for Packt Publishing. He also has a number of apps on the Apple AppStore through Bandlem Limited. When he's not working on technology and if the weather is nice, he likes to go flying from the nearby Cranfield airport. Alex writes regularly at his blog, http://alblue.bandlem.com, as well tweeting regularly on Twitter as @alblue.

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