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Learn Swift by Building Applications

By : Emil Atanasov, Giordano Scalzo, Emil Atanasov
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Learn Swift by Building Applications

By: Emil Atanasov, Giordano Scalzo, Emil Atanasov

Overview of this book

Swift Language is now more powerful than ever; it has introduced new ways to solve old problems and has gone on to become one of the fastest growing popular languages. It is now a de-facto choice for iOS developers and it powers most of the newly released and popular apps. This practical guide will help you to begin your journey with Swift programming through learning how to build iOS apps. You will learn all about basic variables, if clauses, functions, loops, and other core concepts; then structures, classes, and inheritance will be discussed. Next, you’ll dive into developing a weather app that consumes data from the internet and presents information to the user. The final project is more complex, involving creating an Instagram like app that integrates different external libraries. The app also uses CocoaPods as its package dependency manager, to give you a cutting-edge tool to add to your skillset. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to model real-world apps in Swift.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Adding Interactivity to Your First App

Popular third-party libraries

There are many pretty useful frameworks which can boost your development. Some of them are visual ones, while some help you build the solid foundations of your application. But do you know where to find them?

The first place where we could start from is the CocoaPods official site—https://cocoapods.org/. Yes, CocoaPods is a centralized dependency manager and there is a central place where all of pods are listed. And yes, you can search through all of these solutions and find the best one that suits your needs:

You can filter by platform or language—Swift or Objective-C.

All of these projects are hosted on the CocoaPods servers, but many of them are living on GitHub. GitHub is a web service provider that has free and paid Git hosting services. If you use the free tier, then your project should be open to the community. This means that...