Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 2: Exploring the iOS SDK, 2nd Edition

This is the definitive guide to the Swift programming language and the iOS 9 SDK, and the source code has been updated to reflect Xcode 7 and Swift 2.

There’s up-to-date coverage of new Apple technologies as well as significant updates to existing material. You’ll have everything you need to create your very own apps for the latest iOS devices. Every single sample app in the book has been rebuilt from scratch using the latest Xcode and the latest 64-bit iOS 9-specific project templates, and designed to take advantage of the latest Xcode features.

Assuming little or no working knowledge of the new Swift programming language, and written in a friendly, easy-to-follow style, this book offers a complete soup-to-nuts course in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch programming. The book starts with the basics, walking through the process of downloading and installing Xcode and the iOS 9 SDK, and then guides you though the creation of your first simple application.

From there, you’ll learn how to integrate all the interface elements iOS users have come to know and love, such as buttons, switches, pickers, toolbars, and sliders. You’ll master a variety of design patterns, from the simplest single view to complex hierarchical drill-downs. The art of table building will be demystified, and you’ll learn how to save your data using the iPhone file system. You’ll also learn how to save and retrieve your data using a variety of persistence techniques, including Core Data and SQLite. And there’s much more!

What You Will Learn:

• Everything you need to know to develop your own bestselling iPhone and iPad apps
• Utilizing Swift playgrounds
• Best practices for optimizing your code and delivering great user experiences<
• What data persistence is, and why it’s important
• Get started with building cool, crisp user interfaces
• How to display data in Table Views
• How to draw to the screen using Core Graphics
• How to use iOS sensor capabilities to map your world
• How to get your app to work with iCloud and more

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Welcome to the Swift Jungle
Chapter 2: Appeasing the Tiki Gods
Chapter 3: Handling Basic Interaction
Chapter 4: More User Interface Fun
Chapter 5: Rotation and Adaptive Layout
Chapter 6: Multiview Applications
Chapter 7: Tab Bars and Pickers
Chapter 8: Introduction to Table Views
Chapter 9: Navigation Controllers and Table Views
Chapter 10: Collection View and Stack View
Chapter 11: Using Split Views and Popovers
Chapter 12: Application Settings and User Defaults
Chapter 13: Basic Data Persistence
Chapter 14: Documents and iCloud
Chapter 15: Grand Central Dispatch, Background Processing, and You
Chapter 16: Drawing with Core Graphics
Chapter 17: Getting Started with SpriteKit
Chapter 18: Taps, Touches, and Gestures
Chapter 19: Where Am I? Finding Your Way with Core Location and Map Kit
Chapter 20: Whee! Gyro and Accelerometer!
Chapter 21: The Camera and Photo Library
Chapter 22: Application Localization
Appendix A: A Swift Introduction to Swift