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Mastering macOS Programming.

By : Stuart Grimshaw, Gregory Casamento
Book Image

Mastering macOS Programming.

By: Stuart Grimshaw, Gregory Casamento

Overview of this book

macOS continues to lead the way in desktop operating systems, with its tight integration across the Apple ecosystem of platforms and devices. With this book, you will get an in-depth knowledge of working on macOS, enabling you to unleash the full potential of the latest version using Swift 3 to build applications. This book will help you broaden your horizons by taking your programming skills to next level. The initial chapters will show you all about the environment that surrounds a developer at the start of a project. It introduces you to the new features that Swift 3 and Xcode 8 offers and also covers the common design patterns that you need to know for planning anything more than trivial projects. You will then learn the advanced Swift programming concepts, including memory management, generics, protocol orientated and functional programming and with this knowledge you will be able to tackle the next several chapters that deal with Apple’s own Cocoa frameworks. It also covers AppKit, Foundation, and Core Data in detail which is a part of the Cocoa umbrella framework. The rest of the book will cover the challenges posed by asynchronous programming, error handling, debugging, and many other areas that are an indispensable part of producing software in a professional environment. By the end of this book, you will be well acquainted with Swift, Cocoa, and AppKit, as well as a plethora of other essential tools, and you will be ready to tackle much more complex and advanced software projects.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
18
LLDB and the Command Line

Control flow


Some of Swift's control flow and control transfer statements are either considerably more flexible than their counterparts in other languages, or behave a little differently to what one may be accustomed to.

Using switch

We saw in Chapter2, Basic Swift that a Swift switch statement will test for the equality of any type, not just Int, and that we can test for values within a range.

That's just the start. The switch statement is an extremely flexible mechanism, and is capable of reducing large amount of if else code to much more concise, readable, and elegant blocks of code.

Compound cases

Cases can be combined on one line, if they are required to share the same block of code:

let a = 1 

switch a 
{ 
case 1,3,5,7,9: 
  print("a is a single digit positive odd number") 
case 0, 2,4,6,8: 
  print("a is a single digit positive even number") 
default: 
  print("a is not a single digit positive number") 
} 

Tuple matching

If we are dealing with tuples in a switch statement, we can test against...