Swift 4 programming cookbook : 50 task-oriented recipes to make you productive with Swift 4 / Keith Moon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moon, Keith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iOS (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Swift four programming cookbook

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Over 50 recipes to help you quickly and efficiently build applications with Swift 4 and Xcode 9 About This Book Write robust and efficient code and avoid common pitfalls using Swift 4 Get a comprehensive coverage of the tools and techniques needed to create multi-platform apps with Swift 4 Packed with easy-to-follow recipes, this book will help you develop code using the latest version of Swift Who This Book Is For If you are looking for a book to help you learn about the diverse features offered by Swift 4 along with tips and tricks to efficiently code and build applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Swift or general programming concepts will be beneficial. What You Will Learn Explore basic to advanced concepts in Swift 4 Programming Unleash advanced features of Apple's Xcode 9 IDE and Swift Playgrounds Learn about the conditional statements, loops, and how to handle errors in Swift Define flexible classes and structs using Generics, and learn about the advanced operators, and create custom operators Explore functionalities outside of the standard libraries of Swift Import your own custom functionality into Swift Playgrounds Run Swift on Linux and investigate server-side programming with the server side framework Vapor In Detail Swift 4 is an exciting, multi-platform, general-purpose programming language. Being open source, modern and easy to use has made Swift one of the fastest growing programming languages. If you interested in exploring it, then this book is what you need. The book begins with an introduction to the basic building blocks of Swift 4, its syntax and the functionalities of Swift constructs. Then, introduces you to Apple's Xcode 9 IDE and Swift Playgrounds, which provide an ideal platform to write, execute, and debug the codes thus initiating your development process. Next, you'll learn to bundle variables into tuples, set order to your data with an array, store key-value pairs with dictionaries and you'll learn how to use the property observers. Later, explore the decision-making and control structures in Swift and learn how to handle errors in Swift 4. Then you'll, examine the advanced features of Swift, generics and operators, and then explore the functionalities outside of the standard library, provided by frameworks such as Foundation and UIKit. Also, you'll explore advanced features of Swift Playgrounds. At the end of the book, you'll learn server-side programming aspect of Swift 4 and see how to ru...

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Swift Building Blocks

Introduction

Your first Swift program

Getting ready

Downloading Xcode

How to do it...

There's more...

See also

Strings, Ints, Floats, and Bools

How it works...

Optionals, unwrap, and force unwrap

Getting started

Functions

Default parameter values

Parameter overloading

Object classes

Structs

Enumerations

Methods and computed variables

Associated values

Closures

Protocols

Chapter 2: Building on the Building Blocks

Bundling variables into tuples

Ordering your data with arrays

Containing your data with sets

Union

Intersection

Symmetric difference

Subtracting

Storing key-value pairs with Dictionaries

See also.

Subscripts for custom types

Changing your name with typealias

Getting property changing notifications using property observers

Controlling access with access control

Extending functionality with extensions

Chapter 3: Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow

Making decisions with if/else

Conditional unwrap

Chain unwrapping Optionals

Enum with associated values

Switch it up

For the love of loops

While loops

Try, throw, do and, catch - Swift error handling

Checking up front with guard

Doing it later with defer

Bailing out with fatalError and precondition

Chapter 4: Generics, Operators, and Nested Types

Using generics with types

Using generics with functions

Using generics with protocols.

Getting ready

Advanced operators

Option set

Create custom operators

Nested types

Chapter 5: Beyond the Standard Library

Foundation

Networking

JSON

XML

Cocoa Touch

Chapter 6: Swift Playgrounds

Using Swift Playgrounds for UI

Import Resources into Playgrounds

Import Code into Playgrounds

Multi-Page Playgrounds

Chapter 7: Server-Side Swift

Swift on Ubuntu

Building a REST API using Vapor

Persistence with Vapor using Postgres

Hosting your Vapor app on Heroku

Chapter 8: Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

Introduction.

Value and reference semantics

Dispatch Queues

Concurrent queues and dispatch groups

Operations

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 25, 2017).

OCLC:

1008968550