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!
- ISBN10 1098118502
- ISBN13 9781098118501
- Publish Date 15 October 2021
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint O'Reilly Media
- Format Paperback
- Pages 700
- Language English