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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

Building the Todos screen


Let's move on to populating the View Controller we just created with the proper entities.

Adding entities

The first thing we need to do is create entities, which is really straightforward. Basically, we just need to map the requested fields in struct:

import Foundation

struct Todo: Equatable {
    let description: String
    let list: List
    let dueDate: NSDate
    let done: Bool
    let doneDate: NSDate?
}

func ==(todo1: Todo, todo2: Todo) -> Bool {
    return todo1.description == todo2.description
    && todo1.dueDate == todo2.dueDate
}

struct List {
    let description: String
}

Foundation is the core module in Swift, and it contains fundamental objects, for example, NSDate, which is required to implement every kind of app.

Implementing datastore

Next, we create datastore to handle all the operations of entities.

For now, we only return two lists of entities:

import Foundation

class TodosDatastore {
    private var savedLists = [List]()
    private...