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Swift By Example

By : Giordano Scalzo

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Swift By Example

4 (2)

By: Giordano Scalzo

Overview of this book

This book is intended for those who want to learn to develop apps in Swift the right way. Whether you are an expert Objective-C programmer or new to this platform, you'll learn quickly, grasping the code of real-world apps to use Swift effectively. Prior experience in development for Apple devices would be helpful, but is not mandatory.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Welcome to the World of Swift

1. Welcome to the World of Swift

The first look at Swift

A Guess the Number app in Swift

2. A Memory Game in Swift

2. A Memory Game in Swift

The app is…

Building the skeleton of the app

The menu screen

The game screen

Implementing a deck of cards

Put the cards on the table

Finishing the game

Summary

3. A TodoList App in Swift

3. A TodoList App in Swift

The app is…

Building a skeleton app

Building the Todos screen

Adding a Todo task

Adding a list

Where do we go from here?

Summary

4. A Pretty Weather App

4. A Pretty Weather App

The app is…

Building the skeleton

Implementing the UI

Completing the UI

Blurring the background

Downloading the background image

Geolocalising the app

Retrieving the actual forecast

Connecting to the server

Where do we go from here?

Summary

5. Flappy Swift

5. Flappy Swift

The app is…

Building the skeleton of the app

A stage for a bird

A flying bird

Pipes!

Making the components interact

Completing the game

Summary

6. Polishing Flappy Swift

6. Polishing Flappy Swift

Adding juiciness

Integrating with Game Center

Summary

7. Cube Runner

7. Cube Runner

The app is…

Introduction to SceneKit

Implementing Cube Runner

Flying in a 3D world

Adding a few touches

Summary

8. Completing Cube Runner

8. Completing Cube Runner

Making it a real game

Summary

Index

Index

Chapter 5. Flappy Swift

After having explored how to build normal apps with the last two apps, let's go back to games.

These apps will use two useful frameworks that iOS provides for casual game developers—SKSprite and SKScene. The former is a handy and powerful 2D game framework that provides a physics engine based on Box2D. The latter allows indie game developers to implement three-dimensional games.

Let's start using the first framework by implementing a nice clone of Flappy Bird.

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Tech Concepts

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Programming languages

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