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Diving Deep into Swift

By : Jonathan Crooke
Book Image

Diving Deep into Swift

By: Jonathan Crooke

Overview of this book

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux. This course takes you deep into the Swift language. It aims to take you beyond the fluency you need for everyday Swift development, and towards becoming a true master and understand how the language works at a deep level. You will learn Swift development, mostly using Xcode on Apple platforms, along with the ability to port your knowledge to Ubuntu Linux. You will learn stylish tricks to write elegant, professional and powerful Swift code. With this Swift course, you will have a working understanding of how the Objective-C heritage of Apple’s platforms shapes many of its APIs. This is essential knowledge to take you past from an intermediate level into true mastery. By the end of this course, you will be working heavily with Xcode, and will be ready to tackle graphical user interface development on macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Finally, you will be ready to build your own Swift applications with ease
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 2
Managing Concurrency with (Grand Central) Dispatch
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Section 3
Other Dispatch Features
Serial queues are Dispatch's more powerful feature, however there are a number of additional features this library provides that you will be able to use often - Our first example will be global queues, and particularly the main queue. This queue becomes essential when you begin working with Apple's GUI frameworks - Quality of Service is an important concept to take into account once you start to develop large and complex applications, so let us make sure to cover this concept - Dispatch provides a number of APIs that allow us to delay execution of simple tasks for a period of time. time to time in GUI applications