The professional programmer’s Deitel guide to iPhone and iPad app development using iOS8, Swift™, Xcode 6, and Cocoa Touch
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Billions of apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store! This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great iOS 8 apps quickly using Swift–Apple’s programming language of the future. You’ll also learn what makes a great app and how to publish your apps in the App Store. The book uses an app-driven approach–each new technology is discussed in the context of seven fully tested iOS 8 apps, complete with syntax shading, code highlighting, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you’ll develop include:
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- Welcome App
- Cannon Game
- Tip Calculator
- Doodlz
- Twitter Searches
- Address Book
- Flag Quiz
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Practical, Example-Rich Coverage of:
- iOS 8, XCode 6, Swift
- Object-Oriented Programming with Swift and Cocoa Touch
- UI Design, Storyboards, Auto Layout, Outlets, Outlet Collections, Actions
- View Controllers, Views, View Animations
- Event Handling, Multi-Touch
- Single View, Master-Detail, Game Templates
- Accessibility, Internationalization
- Core Data Database Access
- User Defaults, iCloud Key—Value Storage
- Social Framework Sharing
- SpriteKit Game Programming: Animation, Graphics, Physics, Collision Detection
- Accelerometer and Motion Event Handling
- Grand Central Dispatch
- App Store, Pricing, Monetization and more.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT XCODE AND SWIFT: With Xcode 6.3 and Swift 1.2, Apple introduced several changes in Swift that affect the book's source code. Please visitwww.deitel.com/books/iOS8FP1 for updated source code. The changes do not affect Xcode 6.2 users. You can download Xcode 6.2 fromdeveloper.apple.com/downloads/index.action (you’ll have to log in with your Apple developer account to see the list of downloads).
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About This Book
Sales of iOS devices and app downloads have been explosive. The first-generation iPhone sold 6.1 million units in its initial five quarters of availability (bit.ly/iPhoneGen1l). The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, released in September 2014, sold over 10 million combined in their first weekend of availability (bit.ly/FirstiPhone6Weekend). iPad sales are equally impressive. The first generation iPad, launched in April 2010, sold 3 million units in its first 80 days of availability (bit.ly/iPadGen1). In just the first quarter of 2014, Apple sold a record 26 million iPads (bit.ly/iPad2014Q1). At the time of this writing, there were over 1.2 million apps in
Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel, and Abbey Deitel are from Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages authoring and corporatetraining organization. Millions of people worldwide have used Deitel books, LiveLessons video training and online resource centers to master iOS app development, Swift, Java, C++, Android app development, C#, .NET, Visual C++, C, Internet and web programming, JavaScript, XML, Perl, Python, PHP and more.
