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You're reading from Mastering macOS Programming Hands-on guide to macOS Sierra Application Development

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461698

Length 626 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

MacOS

Concepts

Application Development

Authors (2):

Stuart Grimshaw

Gregory Casamento

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello macOS

2. Basic Swift FREE CHAPTER

3. Checking Out the Power of Xcode

4. MVC and Other Design Patterns

5. Advanced Swift

6. Cocoa Frameworks - The Backbone of Your Apps

7. Creating Views Programmatically

8. Strings and Text

9. Getting More from Interface Builder

10. Drawing on the Strength of Core Graphics

11. Core Animation

12. Handling Errors Gracefully

13. Persistent Storage

14. The Benefits of Core Data

15. Connect to the World - Networking

16. Concurrency and Asynchronous Programming

17. Understanding Xcodes Debugging Tools

18. LLDB and the Command Line

LLDB
Summary

19. Deploying Third - Party Code

20. Wrapping It Up

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned:

How to launch a test server on your own machine
How to make HTTP requests using closures
Customizing sessions, requests, and download tasks
When to use a session delegate instead of a closure
How to suspend, resume, and cancel requests

In the next chapter, we will stick with networking as we explore the world of concurrency and asynchronous code, including how best to handle multiple requests that may return data in an unpredictable order.

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Authors (2)

Gregory Casamento

I am a software engineer with 25+ years of experience. I am the maintainer of the GNUstep project. I helped to develop Winamp for the Mac as well as many other highly visible projectsOpen Logic Corporation (my company). I have worked for AMGEN, AOL, Raytheon, Hughes Aircraft and many others.

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Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.

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