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Swift 4 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from Swift 4 Programming Cookbook 50 task-oriented recipes to maximise Swift 4 productivity

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460899

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Swift Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER

2. Building on the Building Blocks

3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow

4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types

5. Beyond the Standard Library

6. Swift Playgrounds

7. Server-Side Swift

8. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

Cocoa Touch

The focus of this book is the Swift programming language itself, rather than the uses of the language to produce apps for Apple platforms or to build server-side services. That being said, it can't be ignored that the vast majority of the Swift code being written is to build, or build upon, iOS apps.

In this recipe, we will take a brief look at how we can interact with the Cocoa Touch frameworks using Swift.

Cocoa Touch is a name given to the collection of UI frameworks available as part of the iOS SDK. Its name derives from the Cocoa framework on macOS that provides UI elements for macOS apps. While Cocoa on macOS is a framework in its own right, Cocoa Touch is a collection of frameworks that collectively provide UI elements for iOS apps and handle the app life cycle; the core of these frameworks is UIKit.

Getting ready

First, we'll need to create a new iOS app project. From the Xcode menu, choose file, then new, and from the dialog box that opens, choose a Single View App from...

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