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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

Firebase

Firebase is a platform that includes many products that solve real problems in software development. It has a free version that has some limitations, but it fits perfectly fine when starting a mobile app from scratch. Once you have gained enough users, Firebase allows you to easily scale and support your product.

You can open the Firebase console (https://console.firebase.google.com/), where you have to create your project:

You need a Google account to be able to use Firebase.

Then, you have to create a new project. Simply give it a name: InstagramLikeApp. Pick a location that will be used to define the currency in which you will be working with Firebase and this particular project:

Once we have a valid project, then we should add an iOS app. Start the process with the + button at the top left.

First, you have to enter your application identifier. You can use something...