iOS 8 For Programmers: An App-Driven Approach With Swift, 3E

The professional programmer's Deitel^® guide to iPhone^® and iPad^® app development using iOS^® 8, Swift™, Xcode^® 6, and Cocoa Touch^®

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:

• Welcome App
• Cannon Game
• Tip Calculator
• Doodlz
• Twitter^® Searches
• Address Book
• Flag Quiz

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.