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Swift 2 By Example

By : Giordano Scalzo
Book Image

Swift 2 By Example

By: Giordano Scalzo

Overview of this book

Swift is no longer the unripe language it was when launched by Apple at WWDC14, now it’s a powerful and ready-for-production programming language that has empowered most new released apps. Swift is a user-friendly language with a smooth learning curve; it is safe, robust, and really flexible. Swift 2 is more powerful than ever; it introduces new ways to solve old problems, more robust error handling, and a new programming paradigm that favours composition over inheritance. Swift 2 by Example is a fast-paced, practical guide to help you learn how to develop iOS apps using Swift. Through the development of seven different iOS apps and one server app, you’ll find out how to use either the right feature of the language or the right tool to solve a given problem. We begin by introducing you to the latest features of Swift 2, further kick-starting your app development journey by building a guessing game app, followed by a memory game. It doesn’t end there, with a few more apps in store for you: a to-do list, a beautiful weather app, two games: Flappy Swift and Cube Runner, and finally an ecommerce app to top everything off. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to build well-designed apps, effectively use AutoLayout, develop videogames, and build server apps.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Swift 2 By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Welcome to the World of Swift
2
Building a Guess the Number App
Index

Chapter 10. ASAP – an E-commerce App in Swift

In this book, I've presented different kinds of apps such as utilities, games, and so on, trying to showcase how to program real applications for iOS.

However, I admit that almost 80 percent of the apps are basically applications that receive JSON data from a server, present them in a tabular or grid, get events from a user, and send back JSON to the server. If you learn how to build a skeleton of an app of this kind, in a flexible and modular way, you will be ready to be a professional iOS developer.

In the two final chapters of this book, we'll implement an app of this kind, and thanks to the fact that Swift is now open source, we'll implement a server that we'll feed this app into as well.