Pro Design Patterns in Swift

The Swift programming language has transformed the world of iOS development and started a new age of modern Cocoa development. Pro Design Patterns in Swift shows you how to harness the power and flexibility of Swift to apply the most important and enduring design patterns to your applications, taking your development projects to master level.

This book will teach you those design patterns that have always been present at some level in your code, but may not have been recognized, acknowledged, or fully utilized. Implementation of specific pattern approaches will prove their value to any Swift developer.

Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from design patterns. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need.

Pro Design Patterns in Swift brings design patterns to life and shows you how to bring structure and scale to your Swift code with a practical, no-nonsense approach.

In this book, you’ll learn:

• Gain a solid, practical understanding of why and when design patterns are useful
• Master classic patterns like singleton, abstract factory, chain of responsibility, and observer
• Discover less well-known patterns like memento, composite, command, and mediator
• Understand how Swift provides essential language features for writing well-structured code that is easy to understand, simple to test and readily maintainable.
• Learn how to consume the Cocoa API to implement classic design patterns
• Build on your existing programming knowledge to get up and running with design patterns in Swift quickly and effectively

What you’ll learn

• Gain a solid, practical understanding of why and when design patterns are useful
• Master classic patterns like singleton, abstract factory, chain of responsibility, and observer
• Discover less well-known patterns like memento, composite, command, and mediator
• Understand how Swift provides essential language features for writing well-structured code that is easy to understand, simple to test and readily maintainable.
• Learn how to consume the Cocoa API to implement classic design patterns
• Build on your existing programming knowledge to get up and running with design patterns in Swift quickly and effectively

Who this book is for

Any professional or aspiring iOS developer will find productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness of software development enhanced by the methods and practice delivered by ProDesign Patterns in Swift.

Table of Contents

Part 1 – Getting Started
Chapter 1. Understanding Design Patterns
Chapter 2. Getting Used to Xcode
Chapter 3. Creating the SportsStore App

Part 2 – The Creation Patterns
Chapter 4. The Object Template Pattern
Chapter 5. The Prototype Pattern
Chapter 6. The Singleton Pattern
Chapter 7. The Object Pool Pattern
Chapter 8. Object Pool Variations
Chapter 9. The Factory Method Pattern
Chapter 10. The Abstract Factory Pattern
Chapter 11. The Builder Pattern

Part 3 – The Structural Patterns
Chapter 12. The Adapter Pattern
Chapter 13. The Bridge Pattern
Chapter 14. The Decorator Pattern
Chapter 15. The Composite Pattern
Chapter 16. The Facade Pattern
Chapter 17. The Flyweight Pattern
Chapter 18. The Proxy Pattern

Part 4 – The Behavioral Patterns
Chapter 19. The Chain of Responsibility Pattern
Chapter 20. The Command Pattern
Chapter 21. The Mediator Pattern
Chapter 22. The Observer Pattern
Chapter 23. The Memento Pattern
Chapter 24. The Strategy Pattern
Chapter 25. The Visitor Pattern
Chapter 26. The Template Method Pattern

Part 5 – The MVC Pattern
Chapter 27. The MVC Pattern