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Mastering Swift 2

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 2

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">At their Worldwide Developer’s conference (WWDC) in 2015, Apple announced Swift 2, a major update to the innovative programming language they first unveiled to the world the year before. Swift 2 features exciting enhancements to the original iteration of Swift, acting, as Apple put it themselves as “a successor to the C and Objective-C languages.” – This book demonstrates how to get the most from these new features, and gives you the skills and knowledge you need to develop dynamic iOS and OS X applications.<br /> </span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">Learn how to harness the newest features of Swift 2 todevelop advanced applications on a wide range of platforms with this cutting-edge development guide. Exploring and demonstrating how to tackle advanced topics such as Objective-C interoperability, ARC, closures, and concurrency, you’ll develop your Swift expertise and become even more fluent in this vital and innovative language. With examples that demonstrate how to put the concepts into practice, and design patterns and best practices, you’ll be writing better iOS and OSX applications in with a new level of sophistication and control.</span></p>
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Mastering Swift 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Taking the First Steps with Swift
2
Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators
Index

Summary


As we saw in this chapter, Apple has made mix and match very easy and convenient to use. In order to access Swift classes from our Objective-C code, all we need to do is import the Xcode-generated header file that exposes the Swift classes. While we do not see this header file as part of our code, Xcode automatically creates it for mixed language projects. The name of this header file takes the format of {Project Name}-Swift.h, where {Project Name} is the name of our project.

It is also very easy to use Objective-C classes within our Swift code. To expose Objective-C classes to our Swift code, all we need to do is add the Objective-C header file to the Objective-C bridging header file. Xcode can create this bridging header file for us the first time we add an Objective-C file to a Swift project, or the first time we add a Swift file to an Objective-C project.

While Apple has said that the future of application development for iOS and OS X platforms is in Swift, mix and match can be...