Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript / by Radoslava Leseva Adams, Hristo Lesev.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leseva Adams, Radoslava., Author.

Lesev, Hristo., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apple computers.

Computer programming.

Software engineering.

Apple and iOS.

Programming Techniques.

Software Engineering.

Local Subjects:

Apple and iOS.

Programming Techniques.

Software Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIX, 510 p. 268 illus., 254 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book builds on your knowledge of ActionScript and takes you on the fast track to developing iOS apps with Swift, Apple’s latest language. Swift’s syntax is easier to understand than Objective-C for people already familiar with ActionScript. At the same time, it offers a number of new features and richer expressiveness than either ActionScript or Objective-C. Switching to a new platform usually involves migration on three levels: tools, workflow, and programming language. Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript is structured as a guide that will help you on each level with step-by-step tutorials. Apart from the tutorials, it comes with recipes for some of the most popular mobile development topics: social network integration and messaging, taking advantage of device capabilities, networking and working with local and iCloud data, advertising in your app or game, and working with 2D and 3D graphics. The book also includes a final chapter that takes you through Apple’s App Store submission process. Don’t just build your apps, sell them. This book Leverages your ActionScript skills and experience to give you a head start with Swift and iOS, including updates for Swift 3 Gives you the fastest way to migrate to a new set of tools, workflow, and programming language with illustrated step-by-step tutorials Walks you through a tutorial for developing more complex UIs Serves as a quick reference with recipes for specific mobile development tasks Provides a set of focused chapters that serve as both introduction and reference for the Swift language.

Contents:

Part I. Tool Migration

1. Setting Up Your Environment

2. Hello, Xcode!

3. Introducing the Xcode Debugger

4. Additional Development Tools

Part II. Workflow Migration

5. "Hello, Swift!" - A Tutorial for Building an iOS App

6. Adding a More Complex UI

7. Concurrency

8. Debugging and Testing Your App

Part III. Making Apps with Swift-Applied Examples

9. Communicating: E-mail, Text Messages, and Calls

10. Getting Social: Posting to Facebook and Twitter

11. Knowing your Location

12. Working with the Camera and Images

13. Working with Data

14. Networking

15. Adding Advertisements and Notifications

16. Using the High-End Graphics APIs

Part IV. Language Migration

17. Swift Language Basics

18. Operators

19. Types

20. Control Flow

21. Object-Oriented Programming Topics

22. New and Different Concepts

23. Releasing your App in the App Store.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781484216668

1484216660

OCLC:

963965485