Learn Swift on the Mac: For OS X and iOS
- Length: 268 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Apress
- Publication Date: 2015-03-20
- ISBN-10: 1484203771
- ISBN-13: 9781484203774
- Sales Rank: #4435859 (See Top 100 Books)
There’s a new language in town. Swift is Apple’s new, native, fast, and easy to learn programming language for iOS and OS X app development. It’s their “Objective-C without the C”. If you are an iOS developer or planning to become one, learning Swift is your #1 priority, and Learn Swift on the Mac tells you everything you need to get up to speed, well, swiftly.
You’ll start with the Swift Playground and an introduction to object-oriented programming so you can immediately see Swift in action. You then learn about all of the key language features like functions and closures, classes, methods, extensions, and how Swift works just as well as Objective-C when it comes to easy memory management with ARC.
Finally you’ll learn how to use Swift alongside Objective-C as well as with Core Data, and you’ll learn how to put all of the pieces together with a health app using Apple’s new HealthKit framework.
What youll learn
- Object-oriented basics with Swift and the Swift Playground
- How to use key language features like functions and classes in Swift
- How to mix and match Swift and Objective-C
- How to use RESTful services with Swift
- How to create a complete app with Swift and HealthKit
Who this book is for
Beginning to intermediate iOS and OS X developers who need to learn Swift or migrate to Swift from Objective-C.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Hello Swift
Chapter 2. The Swift Playground in Xcode 6
Chapter 3. Accessing Swift’s Compiler and Interpreter: REPL
Chapter 4. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Chapter 5. Constants, Variables, and Data Types
Chapter 6. Operators
Chapter 7. Flow Control
Chapter 8. Functions and Closures
Chapter 9. Classes and Structures
Chapter 10. Methods
Chapter 11. Access Control
Chapter 12. Inheritance
Chapter 13. Extensions
Chapter 14. Memory Management and ARC
Chapter 15. Protocols
Chapter 16. Generics
Chapter 17. Expressions
Chapter 18. Interoperability with Objective-C
Chapter 19. Mix and Match
Chapter 20. Working with Core Data
Chapter 21. Consuming RESTful Services
Chapter 22. Bringing it All Together
