Swift Development with Cocoa: Developing for the Mac and iOS App Stores

Name: Swift Development with Cocoa: Developing for the Mac and iOS App Stores
Rating: 4.199999809265137 (5 reviews)

Jonathon Manning · Paris Buttfield-Addison · Tim Nugent

Dec 2014 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

4.2

5 reviews

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About this ebook

Ready to build apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac now that Swift has landed? If you’re an experienced programmer who’s never touched Apple developer tools, this hands-on book shows you how to use the Swift language to make incredible iOS and OS X apps, using Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

Learn how to use Swift in a wide range of real-world situations, with Cocoa features such as Event Kit and Core Animation. You’ll pick up Swift language features and syntax along the way, and understand why using Swift (instead of Objective-C) makes iOS and Mac app development easier, faster, and safer. You’ll also work with several exercises to help you practice as you learn.

Learn the OS X and iOS application lifecycle
Use storyboards to design adaptive interfaces
Explore graphics systems, including the built-in 2D and 3D game frameworks
Display video and audio with AVFoundation
Store data locally with the file system, or on the network with iCloud
Display lists or collections of data with table views and collection views
Build apps that let users create, edit, and work with documents
Use MapKit, Core Location, and Core Motion to interact with the world

Ratings and reviews

4.2

5 reviews

Grant van Staden

March 1, 2015

I mainly write applications for iOS. This book is superb in its explanation of almost everything you'd want to do in an application. I have read a lot of iOS books and most of them just don't help orient the reader in the iOS architecture. It has encouraged me to explore OSX apps but I generally use it as a reference when programming for iOS. It is just great.

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About the author

Jon Manning is the co-founder of Secret Lab, an independent game development studio based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Jon Manning is a game designer and programmer who’s worked on all kinds of projects, ranging from iPad games for children to instant messaging clients. Jon is about to submit a PhD exploring the manipulation of online social networks.Jon is the world’s biggest Horse_ebooks fan (https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks), and can be found on Twitter as @desplesda.

Paris Buttfield-Addison is a mobile app engineer, game designer, and researcher with a passion for making technology simpler and as engaging as possible. Paris recently submitted a PhD investigating how people use tablets for information management.

Tim Nugent pretends to be a mobile app developer, game designer, PhD student, and now he even pretends to be an author. When he isn't busy avoiding being found out as a fraud, he spends most of his time designing and creating little apps and games he won't let anyone see. Tim spent a disproportionately long time writing this tiny little bio, most of which was spent trying to stick a witty sci-fi reference in, before he simply gave up. Tim can be found as @The_McJones on Twitter.

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