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Swift Essentials

You're reading from Swift Essentials Get up and running lightning fast with this practical guide to building applications with Swift

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784396701

Length 228 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (2):

Bandlem Limited

Alex Blewitt

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Exploring Swift

2. Playing with Swift FREE CHAPTER

3. Creating an iOS Swift App

4. Storyboard Applications with Swift and iOS

5. Creating Custom Views in Swift

6. Parsing Networked Data

7. Building a Repository Browser

A. Appendix

Index

What you need for this book

The exercises in this book are written and tested for Swift 1.1, which is bundled with Xcode 6.1. To run the exercises, you need to have a Mac OS X computer running 10.9 or above with Xcode 6.1 or higher. If newer versions of Swift are released, check the book's GitHub repository or the book's errata page at PacktPub for details about any changes that might affect the book's content.

Xcode can be installed via the App Store as a free download; search for Xcode in the search box. Alternatively, Xcode can be downloaded from https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/, which is referenced from the iOS Developer Center at https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/.

Once Xcode is installed, it can be launched from /Applications/Xcode.app or from Finder. To run the command-line based exercises, Terminal can be launched from /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, and if Xcode is installed successfully, Swift can be launched by running xcrun swift.

The iOS applications can be developed and tested in the iOS simulator that comes bundled with Xcode. It is not necessary to have an iOS device to write or test code. However, if you want to run the code on an iOS device, then you need to join the iOS developer program. More information is available at https://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/.

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Authors (2)

Bandlem Limited

Bandlem Limited

Dr Alex Blewitt has been developing Java applications since version 1.0 was released in 1996, and has been using the Eclipse platform since its first release as part of the IBM WebSphere Studio product suite. He got involved in the open source community as a tester when Eclipse 2.1 was being released for macOS, and then subsequently as an editor for EclipseZone, including being a finalist for Eclipse Ambassador in 2007. More recently, Alex has been writing for InfoQ, covering Java and specifically Eclipse and OSGi subjects. He is co-founder of the Docklands.LJC, a regional branch of the London Java Community in the Docklands, and a regular speaker at conferences. Alex currently works for an investment bank in London, and is a Director of Bandlem Limited. Alex blogs at https://alblue.bandlem.com and tweets as @alblue on Twitter, and is the author of both Mastering Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development, and Swift Essentials, both by Packt Publishing.

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Alex Blewitt

Alex Blewitt

contacted on 30 aug 16 _____________ Dr Alex Blewitt has over 20 years of experience in Objective-C and has been using Apple frameworks since NeXTstep 3.0. He upgraded his NeXTstation for a TiBook when Apple released Mac OS X in 2001 and has been developing on it ever since. Alex currently works for an investment bank in London, writes for the on-line technology news site InfoQ and has published two other books for Packt publishing. He also has a number of apps on the Apple AppStore through Bandlem Limited. When he's not working on technology, and if the weather is nice, he likes to go flying from the nearby Cranfield airport. Alex writes regularly at his blog, http://alblue.bandlem.com, as well tweeting regularly from Twitter as @alblue. Acknowledgements This book would not have been possible without the ongoing love and support of my wife Amy, who has helped me through both the highs and lows of life. She gave me the freedom to work during the many late nights and weekends that it takes to produce a book and its associated code repository. She truly is the Lem of my life. I'd also like to thank my parents, Ann and Derek, for their encouragement and support during my formative years. It was this work ethic that allowed me to start my technology career as a teenager and to incorporate my first company before I was 25. I'd also like to congratulate them on their 50th wedding anniversary in 2015, and I look forward to reaching that goal with Amy. Thanks are due especially to the reviewer of this version of the book: Antonio Bello, as well as the previous version of this book: Nate Cook, James Robert and Arvid Gerstmann, who provided excellent feedback on the contents of this book during development and caught many errors in both the text and code. Any remaining errors are my own. I'd also like to thank my children Sam and Holly for inspiring me and hope that they too can achieve anything that they set their minds to. Finally, I'd like to thank Ben Moseley and Eren Kotan, both of whom introduced me to NeXT in the first place and set my career going on a twenty year journey to this book.

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