Ankur Patel is a web and mobile application developer specializing in iOS, with a passion for making innovative consumer applications. Ankur is a generalist who has worked with a variety of programming languages, such as Objective-C, Ruby, JavaScript, Swift, Java, and C. He has held multiple roles in firms both big and small, including IBM, Oracle, Goldman Sachs, Bloomberg, Shutterstock, and MyTime. He is also the author of the book Learning Swift - Building an iOS Game, which teaches readers how to build an iOS game and publish it to the App Store.
I am grateful to Packt Publishing for offering me the opportunity to write this book. Thank you Onkar, Siddharth, and the reviewers, for your support and guidance. I would also like to thank my parents and my wife for being by my side through the nights and weekends. Lastly, I am grateful to God for blessing my wife and I with a child, as thoughts of being a father gave me hope and joy on my journey writing this book.
Albert Wold lives in Tempe, Arizona, with his wife and two children. He has always had an enthusiasm for programming and was initially attracted to it at the age of eight while wanting to learn to build a game. He has spent the last few years focusing on iOS development and is a big fan of the Swift programming language.
Vinod Madigeri is a curious software engineer with a particular interest in app design and development. He has worked in several industries (telecommunication, game technologies, and consumer electronics) as a developer, team leader, and mentor, writing software in C, C++, C#, Objective-C, and Swift.
Vinod has been doing this professionally for 8 years and had been goofing with computers for 12 years before that. Vinod was also a technical reviewer of Object–Oriented Programming with Swift and Multiplayer Game Development with HTML5.
I’d like to thank my lovely wife, Shruti, for her constant support, encouragement, and vanguard thoughts.
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