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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

Implementing Cube Runner


After experimenting a bit with SceneKit, let's start implementing our game.

The game skeleton

As usual, let's start by selecting the correct Xcode project template—the Game template in this case, which looks like this:

In the next screen, we add the requested data and select SceneKit as the technology, as shown here:

After selecting only Portrait as the Device Orientation, as shown in the following screenshot, we can run the example project:

The demo app shows a gorgeous rotating 3D airplane, thus showing us what we can achieve using this framework. Here is a screenshot of the plane:

Implementing the menu

As the first task in building the app, we prepare Podfile, which contains a few pods that we'll use to build the Menu view:

inhibit_all_warnings!
use_frameworks!

target 'CubeRunner' do
    pod 'Cartography', :git => "https://github.com/robb/Cartography.git", :tag => '0.6.0'
    pod 'HTPressableButton', '~> 1.3.2'
    pod 'BitwiseFont', '~> 0.1.0'
end

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