Swift IOS 24-Hour Trainer - Softcover

Mishra, Abhishek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119073553 ISBN 13: 9781119073550

Publisher: Wrox Press, 2016

Synopsis

Jump into the app development world with confidence!

iOS Swift 24-Hour Trainer combines book and video lessons in Apple's Swift programming language to prepare you to build iPhone and iPad apps—and distribute them through the Appstore. First, this approachable text covers the fundamentals of Swift by introducing you to iOS development in this language, and presenting best practices for setting up a development environment and using variables, statements, expressions, operators, functions, and closures. Next, you explore common tasks, such as alert views, table views, and collection views. You then deepen your knowledge of Swift by considering network programming and local data storage. Finally, this engaging resource dives into slightly more advanced concepts, such as tab bars, web views, the accelerometer, camera, photo library, Google maps, and core location.

Swift was designed by Apple to incorporate modern scripting features while offering simpler, cleaner syntax than Objective-C to maintain a minimal and easy to read style. This more expressive code offers numerous key features, such as closures unified with function pointers, tuples and multiple value returns, generics, and functional programming patterns.

• Learn how to obtain a device UDID
• Test your applications on an actual device, so you can see your work in action
• Distribute your applications outside of the App store, allowing you to test your work with real users
• Review common reasons why apps are rejected by Apple to strengthen your case when submitting your apps for distribution

iOS Swift 24-Hour Trainer is an essential guide to Apple's Swift programming language for beginning programmers.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Start building amazing iPhone® and iPad® apps with Swift

Apple's new Swift programming language combines modern scripting features with simpler, cleaner syntax for more expressive code. With this book and the video lessons on its companion website, you will quickly master the fundamentals of Swift even without previous programming experience. Each easy-to-follow lesson teaches a specific technique or concept, with screenshots, step-by-step instructions, video, and exercises to reinforce learning. You'll set up a development environment, get acquainted with the fundamentals, learn to accomplish common tasks, move into data storage and network programming, and finally apply your skills to actual app creation and distribution.

Swift™ iOS 24-Hour Trainer:

• Introduces fundamental Swift concepts such as object-oriented programming, optionals, statements, expressions, closures, optional unwrapping, and exception handling
• Demonstrates common concepts such as alert views, collection views, tab bars, Core Motion, Map Kit, and Core Location
• Explores Storyboards and adaptive layout techniques
• Introduces Test Driven Development practices for iOS development
• Covers distributing test builds to internal and external testers using TestFlight® and submitting apps to iTunes®Connect
• Explores advanced concepts such as UI Testing with Xcode® and building cloud-enabled apps using iCloud® and CloudKit™

More than 6 hours of video training

Each Lesson in this book is accompanied by an online instructional demonstration video to reinforce what you learn. Regardless of your learning style, you can now quickly master the basics and expand your skill set with this step-by-step multi-platform learning experience.

About the Author:

Abhishek Mishra has been developing software for over 18 years and has experience with a diverse set of programming languages and platforms. He is the author of "iPhone and iPad App 24-Hour Trainer" and the technical reviewer of "Professional iOS Programming." He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of London and is a freelance consultant and trainer specializing in mobile application development.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1119073553
• ISBN 13: 9781119073550
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624