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Swift Essentials - Second Edition

By : Alex Blewitt
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Swift Essentials - Second Edition

By: Alex Blewitt

Overview of this book

Swift was considered one of the biggest innovations last year, and certainly with Swift 2 announced at WWDC in 2015, this segment of the developer space will continue to be hot and dominating. This is a fast-paced guide to provide an overview of Swift programming and then walks you through in detail how to write iOS applications. Progress through chapters on custom views, networking, parsing and build a complete application as a Git repository, all by using Swift as the core language
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Swift Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Twitter users


There are a lot of active Twitter users that use Swift; in many cases posts will be marked with the #swift hashtag, and can be found at http://twitter.com/search?q=%23swift. Popular users that the author follows include (in alphabetical Twitter handle name):

  • @AirspeedSwift: This twitter has a good selection of tweets and retweets of Swift-related subjects

  • @ChrisEidhof: This is author of the Functional Swift book and @objcio

  • @CodeWithChris: This twitter is a collection of tutorials on iOS programming

  • @CodingInSwift: This twitter contains cross-posts by a collection of Swift resources

  • @CompileSwift: This twitter contains posts on Swift

  • @cwagdev: Chris Wagner writes some of the iOS tutorials with Ray Wenderlich

  • @FunctionalSwift: This is a selection of functional snippets, along with a Functional Swift book

  • @LucasDerraugh: This is the creator of video tutorials on YouTube

  • @NatashaTheRobot: This twitter contains a great summary of what's happening, along with newsletters and cross references

  • @nnnnnnnn: Nate Cook, who reviewed an earlier version of this book and provides the Swifter list just mentioned

  • @PracticalSwift: This is a good collection of blog posts talking about the Swift language

  • @rwenderlich: Ray Wenderlich has many posts relating to iOS development; a wealth of information and more recently Swift topics as well

  • @SketchyTech: This is a collection of blog posts on Swift

  • @SwiftCastTV: These are video tutorials of Swift

  • @SwiftEssentials: This is the twitter feed for this book

  • @SwiftLDN: This Twitter posts Swift meetups based in London, also invites great Swift talks and presenters

In addition to the Swift-focused Twitter users, there are a number of other Cocoa (Objective-C) developers who blog regularly on topics relating to the iOS and OS X platforms. Given that any Objective-C framework can be integrated into a Swift app (and vice versa), quite often, there will be useful information from reading these posts:

  • @Cocoanetics: Oliver Drobnik writes about iOS and provides training

  • @CocoaPods: CocoaPods is a dependency management system for Objective-C frameworks (pods) and is being extended into the Swift domain

  • @Mattt: Mattt Thompson writes about many iOS subjects, is the author of the AFNetworking and AlamoFire networking libraries, and who moved to Apple to write the Swift package manager

  • @MikeAbdullah: Mike Abdullah writes about general iOS development

  • @MikeAsh: Mike Ash knows everything there is to know, and what he doesn't know, he finds out

  • @MZarra: Marcus S. Zarra has written a lot about Core Data and synching

  • @NSHipster: This is a collection of assembled iOS and Cocoa posts that are organised by Mattt Thompson

  • @objcio: This is a monthly publication on Objective-C topics with some Swift

  • @PerlMunger: Matt Long posts about Swift, Cocoa, and iOS

The reviewers of this book included:

  • @AnilVrgs: Anil Varghese

  • @Ant_Bello: Antonio Bello

  • @ArvidGerstmann: Arvid Gerstmann

  • @jiaaro: James Robert

  • @nnnnnnnn: Nate Cook

The author's personal and book twitter accounts are:

  • @AlBlue is the author's twitter account

  • @SwiftEssentials is the book's twitter account

Meetups such as @SwiftLdn keep a track of interesting Swift writers in a Twitter list at https://twitter.com/SwiftLDN/lists/swift-writers/members, which may have more up-to-date recommendations than this section, as well as the Ray Wenderlich team at https://twitter.com/rwenderlich/lists/raywenderlich-com-team/members.