Description

Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode 13 IDE, Cocoa Touch, and the latest version of Apple’s acclaimed programming language, Swift 5.5. With this thoroughly updated guide, you’ll learn the Swift language, understand Apple’s Xcode development tools, and discover the Cocoa framework.

   Explore Swift’s object-oriented concepts
   Become familiar with built-in Swift types
   Dive deep into Swift objects, protocols, and generics
   Tour the life cycle of an Xcode project
   Learn how nibs are loaded
   Understand Cocoa’s event-driven design
   Communicate with C and Objective-C

In this edition, catch up on the latest iOS programming features:

   Structured concurrency: async/await, tasks, and actors
   Swift native formatters and attributed strings
   Lazy locals and throwing getters
   Enhanced collections with the Swift Algorithms and Collections packages
   Xcode tweaks: column breakpoints, package collections, and Info.plist build settings
   Improvements in Git integration, localization, unit testing, documentation, and distribution
   And more!

Book Details

   Language: English
   Published: 2021
   ISBN: 1098118502
   Format: True PDF