Swift Development with Cocoa: Developing for the Mac and iOS App Stores 1st Edition

by Jonathon Manning (Author), Paris Buttfield-Addison (Author), Tim Nugent (Author)

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Ready to build apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac now that Swift has landed? If you’re an experienced programmer who’s never touched Apple developer tools, this hands-on book shows you how to use the Swift language to make incredible iOS and OS X apps, using Cocoa and Cocoa Touch.

Learn how to use Swift in a wide range of real-world situations, with Cocoa features such as Event Kit and Core Animation. You’ll pick up Swift language features and syntax along the way, and understand why using Swift (instead of Objective-C) makes iOS and Mac app development easier, faster, and safer. You’ll also work with several exercises to help you practice as you learn.

Learn the OS X and iOS application lifecycle
Use storyboards to design adaptive interfaces
Explore graphics systems, including the built-in 2D and 3D game frameworks
Display video and audio with AVFoundation
Store data locally with the file system, or on the network with iCloud
Display lists or collections of data with table views and collection views
Build apps that let users create, edit, and work with documents
Use MapKit, Core Location, and Core Motion to interact with the world

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Jon Manning is the co-founder of Secret Lab, an independent game development studio based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Jon Manning is a game designer and programmer who’s worked on all kinds of projects, ranging from iPad games for children to instant messaging clients. Jon is about to submit a PhD exploring the manipulation of online social networks.Jon is the world’s biggest Horse_ebooks fan (https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks), and can be found on Twitter as @desplesda.

Paris Buttfield-Addison is a mobile app engineer, game designer, and researcher with a passion for making technology simpler and as engaging as possible. Paris recently submitted a PhD investigating how people use tablets for information management.

Tim Nugent pretends to be a mobile app developer, game designer, PhD student, and now he even pretends to be an author. When he isn't busy avoiding being found out as a fraud, he spends most of his time designing and creating little apps and games he won't let anyone see. Tim spent a disproportionately long time writing this tiny little bio, most of which was spent trying to stick a witty sci-fi reference in, before he simply gave up. Tim can be found as @The_McJones on Twitter.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (January 13, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 474 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491908947
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491908945
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.77 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.07 x 9.19 inches

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab, a game development studio based in beautiful Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.Secret Lab builds games and game development tools, including the award-winning ABC Play School iPad games, BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods, and the Qantas Joey Playbox, and the popular open source YarnSpinner narrative game framework.
Paris formerly worked as a software engineer, and product manager for Meebo, which was acquired by Google in 2012.
He has a degree in medieval history, a PhD in Computing, and writes technical books on machine learning, programming, and game development for O’Reilly Media.
He can be found on Twitter @parisba and online at http://paris.id.au
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davidissa

Good book if you are not new to Cocoa/Cocoa Touch

Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2015

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This book are for those already familiar with Cocoa/Cocoa Touch.
It does not use Objective-C, but it implies you are in a transition from Objective-C to Swift. When I say that it implies it's because from the beginning it assumes that you are already accustomed to the name of the classes and how to write an app.
I have some basic experience on Cocoa Touch and Objective-C so I could go on reading. This book covers lots of advanced topics from the first chapters, for example: on chapter 4 it starts covering some basic about views and UI, but it barely start talking about that one of the first examples of the chapter is how to add animation like gravity, snapping and a little bit of Core Animation. In my humble opinion that's for later, much later. I think you should build a basis on app development and then you go to advanced topics.

Anyway, if you are new to Cocoa/Cocoa Touch there are books easier to follow and grasp the basic concepts (even using Objetive-C), like 24h iOS Development by John Ray. It assumes that you don't know neither Objective-C or CocoaTouch and start working on examples to show you .

However if you already know the basics of CocoaTouch/Cocoa, and have written some apps, you will find lots of good information and code examples to improve your apps, and better understand some underlying concepts in Cocoa

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Thomas T Wetmore IV

Swift Language and Cocoa API Versions are Way Out of Date

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2016

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It's always buyer beware when buying a computer book based on a language and its interfaces to specific APIs. But I was very disappointed to realize that this book is no where near up to date with the latest versions of Swift, nor is it up to date with the latest changes Apple has made to simplify many Cocoa APIs for Swift. The result is that many, many, many, many examples do not work as shown in the book, that the number of penciled in notes I have had to make to essentially page I have used so far are significant. I think it is almost sinful that the authors do no mention the version of Swift being used in the book right on the cover. I was really looking forward to this book. I guess in a sense it is helping me by forcing myself to fight through all the language and API changes that have swept passed this book since its publications, but I am really not sure it should be my job to be updating the book so thoroughly as a I move my way through it. Count me sorely disappointed on a book that is already years out of date.

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Jerry R. Raby

Not a great book but not bad.

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2015

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It describes theory well but I don't believe they pull off he real world examples as they are bits and pieces of code for both OS X and iOS rather than building concepts through each chapter using a real application.

If you have strong knowledge of objective C then this book won't too bad. Using it I was able to pick up the important changes of swift and convert some of my apps from objective c to swift (where swift was compatible, it's not ready for the address book). I also liked the chapters on drawing. I'm still a novice programmer and learned a lot from that chapter

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Demetrios J. Govostes

Examples are useless as they don't work

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2015

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I have one major problem with most of these new books on SWIFT. They are outdated the day they go to print and that is the fault of both author and publisher. This book deals with Xcode 6 and Xcode is already at 7.1. Examples are useless as they don't work. I bought the Kindle version figuring that the examples would be updated online. Error. The book does explain a lot of SWIFT attributes, but in the end, you'll need access to Apple's resource files and examples.

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Michael Way

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2016

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A little simplistic.

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Thomas Fortmann

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2015

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Just getting started but this book looks like is has everything I need.

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Craig O Hansen

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2015

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Good way to get started with Swift

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A. Khromov

VERY Poor Editing/Code, Missing Details & Steps

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2015

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Originally I gave this book 4 stars, but as I kept reading it, the details/code/steps had so many errors or omissions that I have to reduce this to a one star. It could be a good book covering a lot of content if it wasn't riddled with errors or missing steps.

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Les Ormonde

Severely out of date with no support. Do not buy.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2016

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A long time ago, this would have been a good book to own. The writing style is clear and the level of detail is in my judgement about right.

Unfortunately, the book is now very out of date and there is no support. Many of the examples no longer work and so you lose a lot of time struggling with trying to use updated syntax and Xcode functionality . Example solutions were provided on Github but not for current levels of Swift and Xcode. O'Reilly provide a support link but having raised a question a month ago, I am still waiting for a response. There is no access to the authors.

So unfortunately, my advice is "Do not buy this book". Spend your money on something that is going to work without a major struggle.

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endavid

Great & easy way to get started with iOS and Mac programming

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 5, 2018

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Very good reference to get started with Cocoa programming in a modern language. I was always overwhelmed by Objective-C, but Swift makes things easier. Nice examples all the way through, although at the speed Swift, iOS, and MacOS evolve, some of the examples might be slightly obsolete. The basics are the same, though.

Aral Balkan

Excellent, concise, comprehensive introduction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2015

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The authors are both experienced and excellent teachers. That's a rare combination. This is the only book you need to get started with Swift on Mac & iOS.

(Background: I've previously written a critically-acclaimed iPhone app that was featured by Apple & I used to teach iOS development workshops.)

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DisscFrench

Nice first book on Swift. Coco stuff currently up to date too Xcode 6.x compliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2015

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Nice book, the coco parts work just as with when doing Objective C app as well (well of course it would! :-) )
I have been looking for a book with up to date coco Xcode look and feel. Most others ar already out of date ;(

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R. L. Hore

Looks good but I have trouble with the examples

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2016

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I have the Kindle version and none of the examples have worked first time. I am using XCode 7.3 which ma be the problem.

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