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Swift Essentials

By : Alex Blewitt

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Swift Essentials

4.8 (4)

By: Alex Blewitt

Overview of this book

Whether you are a seasoned Objective-C developer or new to the Xcode platform, Swift Essentials will provide you with all you need to know to get started with the language. Prior experience with iOS development is not necessary, but will be helpful to get the most out of the book.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Trademarks

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Exploring Swift

1. Exploring Swift

Getting started with Swift

Conditional logic

Iteration

Functions

Command-line Swift

Summary

2. Playing with Swift

2. Playing with Swift

Getting started with playgrounds

Displaying objects with QuickLook

Advanced techniques

Playgrounds and documentation

Limitations of playgrounds

Summary

3. Creating an iOS Swift App

3. Creating an iOS Swift App

Understanding iOS applications

Creating a single view iOS application

Swift classes, protocols, and enums

Creating a master-detail iOS application

Summary

4. Storyboard Applications with Swift and iOS

4. Storyboard Applications with Swift and iOS

Storyboards, scenes, and segues

Adding a navigation controller

Swift and storyboards

Using Auto Layout

Summary

5. Creating Custom Views in Swift

5. Creating Custom Views in Swift

An overview of UIView

Creating new views with interface builder

Creating views by subclassing UIView

Custom graphics with drawRect

Custom graphics with layers

Summary

6. Parsing Networked Data

6. Parsing Networked Data

Loading data from URLs

Parsing JSON

Parsing XML

Direct network connections

Summary

7. Building a Repository Browser

7. Building a Repository Browser

An overview of the GitHub API

The RepositoryBrowser project

Creating the client

Accessing repositories from view controllers

Summary

A. Appendix

A. Appendix

Language

Twitter users

Blogs and tutorial sites

Meetups

Afterword

Index

Index

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Chapter 5. Creating Custom Views in Swift

User interfaces can be built by combining standard views and view controllers through interface builder, storyboard editor, or custom code. However, it will eventually become necessary to break apart a user interface into smaller, reusable, and easier-to-test segments. These are known as custom views.

This chapter will present the following topics:

Customizing table views
Building and laying out custom view subclasses
Drawing graphical views with drawRect
Creating layered graphics with animation

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