Learn Swift by Building Applications

Start building your very own mobile apps with this comprehensive introduction to Swift and object-oriented programmingKey Features A complete beginners guide to Swift programming language Understand core Swift programming concepts and techniques for creating popular iOS apps Start your journey toward building mobile app development with this practical guideBook DescriptionSwift Language is now more powerful than ever; it has introduced new ways to solve old problems and has gone on to become one of the fastest growing popular languages. It is now a de-facto choice for iOS developers and it powers most of the newly released and popular apps. This practical guide will help you to begin your journey with Swift programming through learning how to build iOS apps.You will learn all about basic variables if clauses functions loops and other core concepts; then structures classes and inheritance will be discussed. Next you’ll dive into developing a weather app that consumes data from the internet and presents information to the user. The final project is more complex involving creating an Instagram like app that integrates different external libraries. The app also uses CocoaPods as its package dependency manager to give you a cutting-edge tool to add to your skillset. By the end of the book you will have learned how to model real-world apps in Swift.What you will learn Become a pro at iOS development by creating simple-to-complex iOS mobile applications Master Playgrounds a unique and intuitive approach to teaching Xcode Tackle the basics including variables if clauses functions loops and structures classes and inheritance Model real-world objects in Swift and have an in-depth understanding of the data structures used along with OOP concepts and protocols Use CocoaPods an open source Swift package manager to ease your everyday developer requirements Develop a wide range of apps from a simple weather app to an Instagram-like social app Get ahead in the industry by learning how to use third-party libraries efficiently in your appsWho this book is forThis book is for beginners who are new to Swift or may have some preliminary knowledge of Objective-C. If you are interested in learning and mastering Swift in Apple’s ecosystem namely mobile development then this book is for you.