Summary
iOS Development with Swift is a hands-on guide to creating apps for iPhone and iPad using the Swift language. Inside, you'll be guided through every step of the process for building an app, from first idea to App Store. This book fully covers Swift 4, Xcode 9, and iOS 1.
About the Technology
One billion iPhone users are waiting for the next amazing app. It's time for you to build it! Apple's Swift language makes iOS development easier than ever, offering modern language features, seamless integration with all iOS libraries, and the top-notch Xcode development environment. And with this book, you'll get started fast.
About the Book
iOS Development with Swift is a hands-on guide to creating iOS apps. It takes you through the experience of building an app-from idea to App Store. After setting up your dev environment, you'll learn the basics by experimenting in Swift playgrounds. Then you'll build a simple app layout, adding features like animations and UI widgets. Along the way, you'll retrieve, format, and display data, interact with the camera and other device features, and touch on cloud and networking basics.
What's Inside
• Create adaptive layouts
• Store and manage data
• Learn to write and debug Swift code
• Publish to the App Store
• Covers Swift 4, Xcode 9, and iOS 11
About the Reader
Written for intermediate web or mobile developers. No prior experience with Swift assumed.
Table of Contents
PART 1 - INTRODUCING XCODE AND SWIFT
• Your first iOS application
• Introduction to Swift playgrounds
• Swift objects
PART 2 - BUILDING YOUR INTERFACE
• View controllers, views, and outlets
• User interaction
• Adaptive layout
• More adaptive layout
• Keyboard notifications, animation, and scrolling
PART 3 - BUILDING YOUR APP
• Tables and navigation
• Collections, searching, sorting, and tab bars
• Local data persistence
• Data persistence in iCloud
• Graphics and media
• Networking
• Debugging and testing
PART 4 - FINALIZING YOUR APP
• Distributing your app
• What's next?
