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    Application Development with Swift
    Application Development with Swift
    Application Development with Swift
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    Application Development with Swift

    By Hossam Ghareeb

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    Develop highly efficient and appealing iOS applications by using the Swift language

    About This Book
    • Develop a series of applications with Swift using the development kits and new/updated APIs
    • Use the new features of iOS 8 to add new flavor to your applications
    • A hands-on guide with detailed code snippets to aid you in developing powerful Swift applications
    Who This Book Is For

    If you are an iOS developer with experience in Objective-C, and wish to develop applications with Swift, then this book is ideal for you. Familiarity with the fundamentals of Swift is an added advantage but not a necessity.

    What You Will Learn
    • Use playgrounds in Xcode to make the writing of Swift code productive and easy
    • Get acquainted with the advanced features of Swift and make complete use of them in your code
    • Add a new method for authentication to your app using Touch ID
    • Develop health-related apps using HealthKit
    • Take your apps to the next level of performance and capability using Metal
    • Develop applications for wearables using WatchKit
    • Use Notification Center to easily access all your notifications
    • Make your users devices more stylish by using Apple's built-in Quick Type keyboard, instead of the native one
    In Detail

    After years of using Objective-C for developing apps for iOS/Mac OS, Apple now offers a new, creative, easy, and innovative programming language for application development, called Swift. Swift makes iOS application development a breeze by offering speed, security and power to your application development process. Swift is easy to learn and has awesome features such as being open source, debugging,interactive playgrounds, error handling model, and so on. Swift has simplified its memory management with Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) and it is compatible with Objective-C.

    This book has been created to provide you with the information and skills you need to use the new programming language Swift. The book starts with an introduction to Swift and code structure. Following this, you will use playgrounds to become familiar with the language in no time. Then the book takes you through the advanced features offered by Swift and how to use them with your old Objective-C code or projects. You will then learn to use Swift in real projects by covering APIs such as HealthKit, Metal, WatchKit, and Touch ID in each chapter. The book's easy to follow structure ensures you get the best start to developing applications with Swift.

    Style and approach

    The book achieves its end goal by dividing its content into two parts. Part 1 will take the readers, who are new to Swift, through its architecture and basics. Part 2 of the book will cover content on application development with Swift.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateAug 28, 2015
    ISBN9781785282362
    Application Development with Swift
    Author

    Hossam Ghareeb

    Hossam Ghareeb is a software engineer who graduated from the computer and system engineering department of Alexandria University in 2012. Currently, he is an iOS software engineer at Prototype Interactive in Dubai. He has a lot of experience in iOS development and software engineering; he always keeps himself up to date with new technologies. It is his passion to help people by sharing his experience and writing tutorials to get people engaged quickly without problems. His favorite hobbies are fishing and playing video games, especially FIFA and PES. If you need his help or wish to go fishing with him, then you can contact him at hossam.ghareb@gmail.com.

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      Application Development with Swift - Hossam Ghareeb

      Table of Contents

      Application Development with Swift

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Hello Swift

      Introduction to Swift

      Playgrounds

      The code structure

      Arrays

      Initializing an array

      Iterating over arrays

      Appending items

      Removing and updating items

      Dictionaries

      Initializing a dictionary

      Appending or updating values

      Removing items from the dictionary

      Enum

      Using enumerations with the switch statement

      Enumerations with associated values

      Functions

      Closures

      Summary

      2. Advanced Swift

      Type casting and type checking

      Downcasting

      Using Any and AnyObject

      Protocols

      Properties

      Methods

      Class-only protocols

      Protocol compositions

      The protocol conformance

      The optional requirements

      Delegation

      Extensions

      Adding computed properties

      Adding new initializers

      Adding methods

      Generics

      Operator functions

      Memory management

      Using Objective-C and Swift in a single project

      Importing Objective-C in the Swift project

      Importing Swift in the Objective-C project

      Limitations

      Summary

      3. Touch ID

      What is Touch ID?

      The LocalAuthentication framework

      Summary

      4. Introduction to HealthKit

      What is HealthKit?

      HealthKit limitations

      HealthKit privacy

      Getting started with HealthKit

      Configuring the Xcode project

      Getting your hands dirty with HealthKit

      The HealthKit store

      Asking for permissions

      Updating the UI

      Sharing data in the Health app

      Summary

      5. Introduction to Metal

      What is Metal?

      Features

      3D rendering

      Pipeline

      Transformations

      Projection

      Other options to work with 3D rendering in iOS

      Getting started with Metal

      Devices and CAMetalLayers

      The command queue

      Vertex and color buffers

      Vertex and fragment shaders

      The render pipeline

      The game loop and rendering

      The display link

      The render pass

      The command buffer

      Summary

      6. Introduction to WatchKit

      Apple watch

      WatchKit

      The WatchKit app

      Glances

      Actionable notifications

      Working with WatchKit

      Xcode targets

      Interface controllers

      Interface elements

      Groups

      Navigating interfaces

      Presenting modally

      Animation

      Working with glances

      Summary

      7. Swift App Extensions

      App extensions

      Today

      Share

      Photo Editing

      Document Provider

      Understanding the Document Provider's lifecycle

      The custom keyboard

      Keyboard security

      Keyboard settings

      Working with the custom keyboard

      Demo

      Summary

      Index

      Application Development with Swift

      Application Development with Swift

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      Credits

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      Hossam Ghareeb

      Reviewers

      Tyler Hackbart

      David Mattia

      Hossam M. Sherif

      Kenneth Strickland

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      About the Author

      Hossam Ghareeb is a software engineer who graduated from the computer and system engineering department of Alexandria University in 2012. Currently, he is an iOS software engineer at Prototype Interactive in Dubai. He has a lot of experience in iOS development and software engineering; he always keeps himself up to date with new technologies. It is his passion to help people by sharing his experience and writing tutorials to get people engaged quickly without problems. His favorite hobbies are fishing and playing video games, especially FIFA and PES. If you need his help or wish to go fishing with him, then you can contact him at <hossam.ghareb@gmail.com>.

      I would like to thank each and every person who has been helpful to me, from my teaching staff to my friends. A special thanks to my lovely wife, Amira, for all her support and encouragement in spite of all the time this book kept me away from her. I thank my son, Yusuf, for inspiring me. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude toward my parents for teaching me how to be a good person.

      Last but not least, I would like to thank the content editors, Shali Deeraj and Nikhil Karkal, for helping me and being nice to me, and the reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions.

      About the Reviewers

      Tyler Hackbart is a web developer, designer, and technology enthusiast with a passion for everything in technology. Through self-learning, he gained the ability to write his first line of code when he was only 16 years old and has just started learning his sixth programming language. With his farm-raised work ethic, alongside a passion for crafting amazing user interactions and doing what he loves, Tyler has successfully worked in the technology field for 2 years. He is the cofounder of three start-ups and works in an application design firm, all based in Waterloo, Canada.

      David Mattia is a student at the University of Notre Dame with a passion for software engineering. He has worked for General Electric Aviation and spends much of his free time doing freelance work.

      Hossam M. Sherif is a software developer. He received his bachelor's degree in computer and system engineering from Alexandria University. He has spent several years in software development, especially in iOS and backend development. He has worked with many companies, such as Insidetrack, Inova LLC, and Log n Labs. He worked on different projects and in different roles, from software developer to team leader and manager. He served in the Egyptian Navy and participated in the enhancement and development of the IT department. He has certificates in software test processes and software test design. He participated in several volunteer projects and workshops as an instructor for Introduction to iOS Development, a summer 2014 training course for undergraduates at Alexandria University, and also other courses, such as the Alexandria Startup 2012 weekend and IEEE ITW 2011.

      Kenneth Strickland joined the US Army in 1986. After 4 years of active duty in the US Army, he came across software development. That was when he picked up his first C programming book and read it from cover to cover. Since then, he has never looked back.

      He has been a software architect for over 10 years, and currently develops applications primarily in C/C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, and .NET.

      You can visit his website at http://kenster.guru.

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      Preface

      This book teaches you how to master the Swift programming language and use it in building apps with the new technologies introduced in iOS 8. Swift is a new programming language for iOS, OS X, and watchOS apps. In the beginning of this book, we will give you an advanced introduction to Swift, and then we will see how to apply this in real-app demos using the new technologies and APIs in iOS 8 such as TouchID, watchOS, Metal, and HealthKit.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Hello Swift, gives a quick introduction and revision about Swift. This chapter is very important for Swift beginners and is highly recommended for Swift developers to revise their knowledge.

      Chapter 2, Advanced Swift, boosts your Swift experience by allowing you to learn some advanced features in Swift. In this chapter, we will talk about protocols, extensions, and

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