You're reading from iOS 18 Programming for Beginners Learn iOS development with Swift 6, Xcode 16, and iOS 18 - your path to App Store success

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836204893

Length

Edition 9th Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

Mobile Application Development

Table of Contents (34) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Swift FREE CHAPTER

2. Exploring Xcode

3. Simple Values and Types

4. Conditionals and Optionals

5. Range Operators and Loops

6. Collection Types

7. Functions and Closures

8. Classes, Structures, and Enumerations

9. Protocols, Extensions, and Error Handling

10. Swift Concurrency

11. Part 2: Design

12. Setting Up the User Interface

13. Building Your User Interface

14. Finishing Up Your User Interface

15. Modifying App Screens

16. Part 3: Code

17. Getting Started with MVC and Table Views

18. Getting Data into Table Views

19. Passing Data between View Controllers

20. Getting Started with Core Location and MapKit

21. Getting Started with JSON Files

22. Getting Started with Custom Views

23. Getting Started with the Camera and Photo Library

24. Getting Started with Search

25. Getting Started with Collection Views

26. Part 4: Features

27. Getting Started with SwiftData

28. Getting Started with SwiftUI

29. Getting Started with Swift Testing

30. Getting Started with Apple Intelligence

31. Testing and Submitting Your App to the App Store

32. Other Books You May Enjoy

33. Index

Understanding Swift concurrency

In Swift 5.5, Apple added support for writing asynchronous and parallel code in a structured way.

Asynchronous code allows your app to suspend and resume code. This allows your app to do things like update the user interface while still performing operations like downloading data from the internet.

Parallel code allows your app to run multiple pieces of code simultaneously.

You can find links to all of Apple's Swift concurrency videos during WWDC21 at https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=2o3euotz.

You can read Apple's Swift concurrency documentation at https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=2o3euotz.

During WWDC2024, Apple released Swift 6. With the Swift 6 language mode, the compiler can now guarantee that concurrent programs are free of data races. This means that code from one part of your app can no longer access the same area memory that is being modified...

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