iOS 8 Swift Programming Cookbook

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Swift
   1. Introduction to Swift
   2. Variables, Constants and Type Annotations
   3. println(), Hex, Binary, Octal and Boolean Values
   4. Tuples, Optionals, and Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals
   5. The Nil Coalescing Operator and Range Operators
   6. Strings, Dictionaries, Arrays and Fast Iteration
   7. NSDictionary and NSArray
   8. If, While and Switch Statements
   9. Classes and Structures
   10. Functions, Parameters and Return Types
   11. Protocols
2. User Interfaces
   1. Adding Blur Effects to Your Views
   2. Presenting Temporary Information on the Screen with Popovers
   3. Displaying Alerts and Action Sheets
   4. Loading Web Pages with WebKit
3. Extensions
   1. Building Custom Keyboards
   2. Creating a Service Within Your App with Action Extensions
4. HealthKit
   1. Retrieving and Modifying User’s Weight Information
   2. Accessing and Modifying User’s Height Information
   3. Reading and Modifying the User’s Total Calories Burned
5. HomeKit
   1. Discovering and Managing HomeKit Enabled Accessories
   2. Interacting with HomeKit Accessories
6. Concurrency
   1. Creating Simple Concurrency with Operations
   2. Completing a Long-Running Task in the Background
7. Networking
   1. Downloading Data Using NSURLSession
   2. Downloading Asynchronously with NSURLConnection
8. Address Book
   1. Retrieving a Person Entity with System UI
   2. Retrieving a Property of a Person Entity with System UI
   3. Retrieving All the People in the Address Book
   4. Retrieving and Setting a Person’s Address Book Image
9. Files and Folders
   1. Writing to and Reading from Files
   2. Enumerating Files and Folders
10. Core Data
    1. Performing Batch Updates on Core Data
    2. Reading Data From Core Data
    3. Deleting Data From Core Data
    4. Fetching Data in the Background
11. Cloud Kit
    1. Storing Data with CloudKit
    2. Retrieving Data with CloudKit
    3. Querying the Cloud with CloudKit