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Mastering Swift 3

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Mastering Swift 3

Overview of this book

Swift is the definitive language of Apple development today. It’s a vital part of any iOS and OS X developer’s skillset, helping them to build the most impressive and popular apps on the App Store—the sort of apps that are essential to iPhone and iPad users every day. With version 3.0, the Swift team have added new features to improve the development experience—making it easier to get the results you want and customers expect. Inside, you’ll find the key features of Swift 3.0 and quickly learn how to use the newest updates to your development advantage. From Objective-C interoperability to ARC, to closures and concurrency, this advanced Swift guide will develop your expertise and make you more fluent in this vital programming language. We give you in-depth knowledge of some of the most sophisticated elements of Swift development including protocol extensions, error-handling, design patterns, and concurrency, and guide you on how to use and apply them in your own projects. You'll see how even the most challenging design patterns and programming techniques can be used to write cleaner code and to build more performant iOS and OS X applications. By the end of this book, you’ll have a handle on effective design patterns and techniques, which means you’ll soon be writing better iOS and OS X applications with a new level of sophistication and control.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Mastering Swift 3
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

Standalone closures and good style guidelines


Closures give us the ability to truly separate the data portions of our code from the user interface and business logic portions. This gives us the ability to create reusable classes that focus solely on retrieving our data. This is especially good for developing types and frameworks that are designed to retrieve data from external services, such as web services, databases, or files. In this section, I will show you how to develop a type that will execute a closure once our data is returned.

Let's begin by creating a class that will contain the data portion of our code. In this example, the class will be named Guests and it will contain an array of guests names. Let's take a look at the following code:

class Guests { 
    var guestNames = ["Jon","Kim","Kailey","Kara","Buddy","Lily","Dash"] 
    
    typealias UseArrayClosure = [String] -> Void    
    func getGuest(handler:UseArrayClosure) { 
        handler(guestNames...