Swift Essentials [Paperback]

Swift, Apple's new and powerful programming language, was one of the biggest innovations of 2014. With many seeing it as a radical development within OSX and iOS application development, it promises to make a big impact in 2015 and beyond. Swift Essentials will help you get up to speed with Swift and get beneath the hype to learn how to use Swift to build your own iOS applications. Featuring quick and practical information you can put to work immediately, Swift Essentials provides you with easy access to unlock one of the most talked about programming languages of 2014.

Explore Swift's expressive syntax as you learn and learn to program iOS apps. Find out how to use Swift's impressive playground feature for prototyping, to see the immediate results of your code, follow steps to create your own single-page iOS application, and go further with Swift by learning how to use the Swift storyboard to develop multi-page applications. You will also learn how to create custom views using UIView and custom graphics with drawRect, and find detailed instructions to help you learn how to parse networked data and build a repository browser in the final two chapters.

Don't be left behind  make sure you're up to speed with one of the most important innovations in iOS development and mobile application development. With Swift Essentials you'll fly through Swift!

• Dive into Swift and explore its innovative and powerful syntax
• Work with Swift in Xcode for a unique and productive approach to development
• Learn how to create complete iOS applications
• Discover rapid prototyping with Swift playground
• Learn how to use the Swift storyboard to help you develop multi-page applications
• Learn how to parse JSON and XML data from network sources
• Build a network client for GitHub repositories, with full source code on GitHub