Preface

Welcome to the world of iOS® 8 app development with Apple’s new and rapidly evolving Swift™ programming language, the Cocoa Touch® frameworks and the Xcode® 6 development tools.

iOS® 8 for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach with Swift™, Volume 1, 3/e presents leading-edge mobile computing technologies for professional software developers. At the heart of the book is our app-driven approach—we present concepts in the context of seven completely coded and fully tested iOS 8 apps rather than using code snippets. We’ve always favored teaching by example—in an app-development world, the best examples are real, working apps.

Chapters 28 each present one app. We begin each of these chapters with an introduction to the app, an app test-drive ...

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