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Learning Swift Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Andrew J Wagner
Book Image

Learning Swift Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Andrew J Wagner

Overview of this book

Swift is Apple’s new programming language and the future of iOS and OS X app development. It is a high-performance language that feels like a modern scripting language. On the surface, Swift is easy to jump into, but it has complex underpinnings that are critical to becoming proficient at turning an idea into reality. This book is an approachable, step-by-step introduction into programming with Swift for everyone. It begins by giving you an overview of the key features through practical examples and progresses to more advanced topics that help differentiate the proficient developers from the mediocre ones. It covers important concepts such as Variables, Optionals, Closures, Generics, and Memory Management. Mixed in with those concepts, it also helps you learn the art of programming such as maintainability, useful design patterns, and resources to further your knowledge. This all culminates in writing a basic iOS app that will get you well on your way to turning your own app ideas into reality.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Swift Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using functions


After you have exposed the headers to Swift, it is very simple to call functions. You can simply call the functions directly as if they didn't have parameter names:

NSArray *addInviteeToListIfSpotAvailable
     (
     NSArray *invitees,
     NSString *newInvitee
     );
addInviteeToListIfSpotAvailable(inviteeList, "Sarah")

Xcode will even autocomplete the code for you. From your Swift files point of view, there is no way to know if that function is implemented in Objective-C or Swift.

Using types

You can use types the same way you use functions. Once the proper header files are imported in the bridging header, you can just use the type as if it were a Swift type:

@interface Contact : NSObject
@property NSString *firstName;
@property NSString *lastName;
- (NSArray *)addToInviteeList:(NSArray *)invitees includeLastName:(BOOL)include;
@end
var contact = Contact()
contact.firstName = "First"
contact.lastName = "Last"
contact.addToInviteeList(inviteeList, includeLastName: false)

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