Mastering Swift: A Beginner’s Guide
- Length: 216 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: CRC Press
- Publication Date: 2022-03-13
- ISBN-10: 103218261X
- ISBN-13: 9781032182612
- Sales Rank: #11915703 (See Top 100 Books)
If you want to become an iOS developer, you have made an excellent choice with this book. Swift holds a significant position in the iOS industry because of the long list of features it serves. It is user-friendly, has great community support, and offers a greater extent of customization. As a result, we can observe a sharp increase in the market demand for developing Apple mobile applications, and with that, companies search for smart developers with the right skill set.
Mastering Swift introduces Apple’s excellent Swift standard library style and incorporates usage feedback across multiple Swift projects. However, it should be regarded as a living, changeable document and the basis upon which the programming language is implemented.
Before going further into the details of the Swift programming language, the book briefly explains the basic information about the language. It is a high-level language created to develop multifaceted iOS applications that cater diverse needs of different social and business domains. It is meant to develop high-end apps with multiple complexities. But since it is very close to Objective C, it is easy to code and understand. This feature makes it incredibly friendly to beginners as well. Moreover, it is equally compatible with iPhones, iPad, Apple Watch, MacBook, Apple Tv and can be applied to develop equally efficient and scalable apps for them.
Mastering Series encircles all the essential aspects of Swift and explores why this programming language is the future for iOS app development. Different from other languages, it requires fewer lines to activate any feature. This paves the way for a shorter development cycle and saves a lot of precious resources. Further, as one of the most reliable iOS programming language it supports dynamic libraries that indicate executable bits of code that you can link to an application. Because of such support, Swift apps can interoperate with the newest version of the language to make the app irreplaceable.
Swift is a language that was not designed but deliberately made open source in order to invite the community, let the product grow and mature over the years. This could possibly be the most crucial aspect of Swift. As people become more aware of its potential to be used in the server, web frameworks were more willing to support the demand. Owing to its popularity and significance, its adoption rate in Apple’s rival remains very high. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner, if you are planning for iOS app development through Swift, this book can help with the high-domain expertise and experienced resources.
Without a doubt, the developers that create native apps are not going to abandon Swift anytime soon. However, it sure seems like something has to evolve for it to keep growing constantly. We believe that now you must be convinced that Swift is indeed the future for iOS app developers. And if you are convinced and want to start learning the programming language right away, then this book is what you’re looking for.
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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents About the Editor CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Swift Programming Language WHAT IS SWIFT A Brief History of Swift Swift Tools Swift as the First Programming Language Closure Support String Support Access Control Options and Chaining Value Types Protocol-Oriented Programming Libraries, Runtime, and Development Memory Management Debugging and Other Elements Performance TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS INSTALLATION OF SWIFT CHAPTER 2: Getting Started with Swift BASIC SWIFT LANGUAGE SYNTAX Different Elements of the Playground Swift Playground Automatic or Manual Execution Import in Swift Tokens in Swift Comments Semicolons Identifiers Keywords Whitespaces Literals USING STRINGS, INTS, FLOATS, AND BOOLS Bound Values Type Aliases Type Safety Type Inference Creating a String Empty String String Constants String Interpolation String Concatenation String Comparison String Iterating String Functions and Operators Empty Character Variables Accessing Characters from Strings Concatenating Strings with Characters BUILDING AND RUNNING PROGRAMS ON C++ Preprocessing Compiling Linking USING THE REPL Multiline History Multiline Editing Quick Reference CHAPTER 3: Swift Basic Syntax VARIABLES AND CONSTANTS Declaring Constants and Variables Type Annotations Naming Constants and Variables Printing Constants and Variables CONDITIONS AND LOOPS For-In Loops While Loops Loop Control Statements Conditional Statements If Switch Control Transfer Statements Continue Break Fallthrough Labeled Statements Early Exit Checking API Availability FUNCTIONS Defining and Calling Functions Function Parameters and Return Values Functions without Parameters Functions with Multiple Parameters Functions without Return Values Functions with Multiple Return Values Optional Tuple Return Types Functions with an Implicit Return Function Argument Labels and Parameter Names Variadic Parameters In-Out Parameters Nested Functions OBJECTS AND CLASSES Comparing Structures and Classes Structure and Class Instances Memberwise Initializers for Structure Types Identity Operators Pointers ENUMERATIONS Iterating over Enumeration Cases Associated Values Raw Values Implicitly Assigned Raw Values Recursive Enumerations CHAPTER 4: Swift Standard Library ARRAY Order Random Access Dictionary Set COMPARING DATES WITH FOUNDATION libdispatch XCTest Foundation Creating a DateInterval Instance init(start:duration:) init(start:end:) init() Properties Operations FETCHING DATA WITH URLSESSION Setting Up the HTTP Request with URLSession Making the Request with URLSessionDataTask Printing the Returned Response Data Validating the Response Data Converting the Response Data to JSON Making POST Requests with URLSession Setting Up the HTTP POST Request with URLSession Setting Up the Request Headers and Body Making the Request with URLSessionUploadTask Printing the Returned Response Data WORKING WITH JSON Creating a Model Nested JSON Objects Decodable and Encodable Protocols Coding Keys JSONDecoder and JSONEncoder JSONDecoder JSONEncoder Date Formats WORKING WITH XML CHAPTER 5: Creating iOS Apps with Swift CORE COMPONENTS OF XCODE Creating an Xcode Project for an App Managing Files in the Main Window BUILDING AN IOS APP WITH COCOA TOUCH UIKit Overview The Foundation Overview Creating Frameworks Timer Rounded Corners Animation UNIT AND INTEGRATION TESTING XCTEST Pros and Cons of XCTest Framework Writing a Unit Test Writing an Integration Test Writing a UI Test Writing a Performance Test CHAPTER 6: Building Blocks of SwiftUI SWIFTUI IMPROVEMENTS ON MACOS Always-On Retina Display Support Widgets for iPadOS Declarative Syntax DESIGN TOOLS CONTROLS, VIEWS, AND LISTS Configuring a View with a Modifier Chain Modifiers to Achieve Complex Effects Configuring Child Views Using View-Specific Modifiers List View EXPLORING TEXT AND DECORATION Localizing Strings CREATING CUSTOM VIEWS AND LISTS Conforming to the View Protocol Declaring a Body Assembling the View’s Content Configuring Views with Modifiers Managing Data Adding Your View to the View Hierarchy Creating and Modifying List View Supporting Selection in Lists Refreshing the List Content Supporting Multidimensional Lists Creating Hierarchical Lists Styling Lists DECLARATIVE SYNTAX CHAPTER 7: Machine Learning on Swift CORE ML Creating ML Framework MACHINE LEARNING APIs Natural Language Creating a Text Classifier Model Speech Recognizing Speech in Live Audio Sound Analysis Classifying Sounds in an Audio File VISION Tracking the User’s Face in Real-Time DETECTING OBJECTS BY CORE ML AND VISION APPRAISAL INDEX
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