Unlock the full potential of Swift and elevate your iOS development skills with this new edition of Swift Cookbook, highlighting the latest features in Swift 5.9.

This cookbook will take your Swift programming skills to the next level, boosting your productivity and efficiency step by step through a plethora of practical recipes. Although this book is primarily for experienced iOS developers, it provides an introductory overview of Swift 5.9, including its basic building blocks, syntax, and the functionalities of Swift constructs, to get you warmed up. Once you’ve mastered the fundamentals, you’ll get down to business.

Unless you’re completely new to Swift, this recipe-based guide doesn’t need to be read in order; you can jump to whichever topic takes your fancy, from UIKit and SwiftUI to advanced UI techniques, from Swift’s control flow and generics to machine learning with Vision, CoreML, and augmented reality with ARKit.

By the end of this book, you’ll be fully up to speed with Swift’s capabilities and be able to develop amazing applications across a wide variety of domains.

What you will learn:

• Define flexible classes and structs using generics
• Use advanced operators and create custom ones
• Build iOS apps using UIKit and SwiftUI framework
• Import custom functionality into Swift Playgrounds
• Implement machine learning models using CoreML and Vision
• Manage 3D models and assets for ARKit using Swift and Xcode

Discover recipes for building feature-rich, reliable iOS native apps and explore the latest features in Swift 5.3 with the help of proven industry standard recipes, modern design techniques, and popular strategies Key Features Understand how closures work and make use of generics with protocols to write flexible code Discover the fundamentals of Swift and build apps with frameworks such as Foundation, Networking, and UIKit Get to grips with the new features of Swift 5.3, including SwiftUI, CoreML and the Vision Framework Book DescriptionSwift is an exciting, multi-platform, general-purpose programming language, and with this book, you'll explore the features of its latest version, Swift 5.3. The book begins with an introduction to the basic building blocks of Swift 5.3, its syntax, and the functionalities of Swift constructs. You'll then discover how Swift Playgrounds provide an ideal platform to write, execute, and debug your Swift code. As you advance through the chapters, the book will show you how to bundle variables into tuples or sets, order your data with an array, store key-value pairs with dictionaries, and use property observers. You'll also get to grips with the decision-making and control structures in Swift, examine advanced features such as generics and operators, and explore functionalities outside of the standard library. Once you've learned how to build iOS applications using UIKit, you'll find out how to use Swift for server-side programming, run Swift on Linux, and investigate Vapor. Finally, you'll discover some of the newest features of Swift 5.3 using SwiftUI and Combine to build adaptive and reactive applications, and find out how to use Swift to build and integrate machine learning models along with Apple's Vision Framework. By the end of this Swift book, you'll have discovered solutions to boost your productivity while developing code using Swift 5.3. What you will learn Explore basic to advanced concepts in Swift 5.3 programming Understand conditional statements, loops, and how to handle errors in Swift Define flexible classes and structs using generics Use advanced operators and create custom ones Build iOS apps using the powerful features of UIKit or the new SwiftUI framework Import your own custom functionality into Swift Playgrounds Run Swift on Linux and investigate server-side programming with the server-side framework Vapor Use Swift to implement machine learning models using CoreML and Vision Who this book is forThis book is for experienced iOS developers looking to learn about the diverse features offered by Swift 5.3, along with tips and tricks to efficiently code and build applications. Knowledge of general programming concepts will assist in understanding key concepts.

Over 50 recipes to help you quickly and efficiently build applications with Swift 4 and Xcode 9 About This Book * Write robust and efficient code and avoid common pitfalls using Swift 4 * Get a comprehensive coverage of the tools and techniques needed to create multi-platform apps with Swift 4 * Packed with easy-to-follow recipes, this book will help you develop code using the latest version of Swift Who This Book Is For If you are looking for a book to help you learn about the diverse features offered by Swift 4 along with tips and tricks to efficiently code and build applications, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Swift or general programming concepts will be beneficial. What You Will Learn * Explore basic to advanced concepts in Swift 4 Programming * Unleash advanced features of Apple's Xcode 9 IDE and Swift Playgrounds * Learn about the conditional statements, loops, and how to handle errors in Swift * Define flexible classes and structs using Generics, and learn about the advanced operators, and create custom operators * Explore functionalities outside of the standard libraries of Swift * Import your own custom functionality into Swift Playgrounds * Run Swift on Linux and investigate server-side programming with the server side framework Vapor In Detail Swift 4 is an exciting, multi-platform, general-purpose programming language. Being open source, modern and easy to use has made Swift one of the fastest growing programming languages. If you interested in exploring it, then this book is what you need. The book begins with an introduction to the basic building blocks of Swift 4, its syntax and the functionalities of Swift constructs. Then, introduces you to Apple's Xcode 9 IDE and Swift Playgrounds, which provide an ideal platform to write, execute, and debug the codes thus initiating your development process. Next, you'll learn to bundle variables into tuples, set order to your data with an array, store key-value pairs with dictionaries and you'll learn how to use the property observers. Later, explore the decision-making and control structures in Swift and learn how to handle errors in Swift 4. Then you'll, examine the advanced features of Swift, generics and operators, and then explore the functionalities outside of the standard library, provided by frameworks such as Foundation and UIKit. Also, you'll explore advanced features of Swift Playgrounds. At the end of the book, you'll learn server-side programming aspect of Swift 4 and see how to run Swift on Linux and then investigate Vapor, one of the most popular server-side frameworks for Swift. Style and approach Each recipe addresses a specific problem, with a detailed discussion that explains the solution and offers insight into how it works.