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Swift Essentials

Get up and running lightning fast with this practical guide to building applications with Swift

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Alex Blewitt and  Bandlem Limited  
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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    Whether you are a seasoned Objective-C developer or new to the Xcode platform, Swift Essentials will provide you with all you need to know to get started with the language. Prior experience with iOS development is not necessary, but will be helpful to get the most out of the book.

    What you will learn

    • Explore the nuts and bolts of the Swift syntax
    • Test Swift code interactively with the REPL
    • Display graphics with QuickLook in the Swift playground
    • Present data in masterdetail applications
    • Use the Swift storyboard to manage multiscreen applications
    • Create graphical UIViews with Swift
    • Parse JSON and XML data from network sources
    • Build a standalone iOS application from start to finish

    Who this book is for

    Table of Contents

    1. Exploring Swift
    2. Playing with Swift
    3. Creating an iOS app with Swift
    4. Intergrating iOS, Swift and Storyboard
    5. Custom views in Swift
    6. Working with networked data
    7. Building a GitHub issues client
    8. Appendix
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-495-0
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 228

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