Book description
Move into iOS 9 development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including Xcode 7, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Apple’s Swift 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.
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Table of contents
- Preface
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I. Language
- 1. The Architecture of Swift
- 2. Functions
- 3. Variables and Simple Types
- 4. Object Types
- 5. Flow Control and More
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II. IDE
- 6. Anatomy of an Xcode Project
- 7. Nib Management
- 8. Documentation
- 9. Life Cycle of a Project
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III. Cocoa
- 10. Cocoa Classes
- 11. Cocoa Events
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12. Memory Management
- Principles of Cocoa Memory Management
- Rules of Cocoa Memory Management
- What ARC Is and What It Does
- How Cocoa Objects Manage Memory
- Autorelease Pool
- Memory Management of Instance Properties
- Retain Cycles and Weak References
- Unusual Memory Management Situations
- Nib Loading and Memory Management
- Memory Management of CFTypeRefs
- Property Memory Management Policies
- Debugging Memory Management Mistakes
- 13. Communication Between Objects
- A. C, Objective-C, and Swift
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: iOS 9 Programming Fundamentals with Swift
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2015
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491936771
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