iOS 8 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics

Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift Apple s new programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you ll learn Swift s object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple s development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functionality iOS apps need to have.

• Explore Swift s object-oriented concepts: variables and functions, scopes and namespaces, object types and instances
• Become familiar with built-in Swift types such as numbers, strings, ranges, tuples, Optionals, arrays, and dictionaries
• Learn how to declare, instantiate, and customize Swift object types enums, structs, and classes
• Discover powerful Swift features such as protocols and generics
• Tour the lifecycle of an Xcode project from inception to App Store
• Create app interfaces with nibs and the nib editor, Interface Builder
• Understand Cocoa s event-driven model and its major design patterns and features
• Find out how Swift communicates with Cocoa s C and Objective-C APIs

Once you master the fundamentals, you ll be ready to tackle the details of iOS app development with author Matt Neuburg s companion guide, Programming iOS 8.