iOS 8 Swift Programming Cookbook

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Learn how to overcome several programming issues when creating apps for iOS devices with iOS 8. This video course with Vandad Nahavandipoor, based on his cookbook with the same name, walks you through 30 practical recipes for working with the iOS 8 SDK, including HealthKit, HomeKit, Core Data, and CloudKit. If you’re familiar with Objective-C or other object-oriented programming languages, you’ll also learn details for switching to Apple’s …

iOS 8 Swift Programming Cookbook

Video description

By the end of this video tutorial, you’ll pick up techniques for storing and protecting data, networking, creating vibrant user interfaces, using concurrency, working with the Address Book, and many other options.

Get a practical and thorough introduction to Swift
Integrate CloudKit into your apps and store information with ease
Access user’s health-related information with HealthKit
Interact with accessories inside the user’s home with HomeKit
Add blur effects to your views and display alerts and action sheets
Build custom keyboards and create a service within your app
Retrieve and manipulate contacts and groups from the Address Book
Perform batch updates on Core Data
Complete a long-running task in the background

Source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/vandadnp/iOS-8-Swift-Programming-Cookbook

Vandad Nahavandipoor works for a leading bank in London and has led an international team of more than 30 iOS developers.

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Introduction to Swift

Variables, Constants and Type Annotations

println(), Hex, Binary, Octal and Boolean Values

Tuples, Optionals, and Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals

The Nil Coalescing Operator and Range Operators

Strings, Dictionaries, Arrays and Fast Iteration

NSDictionary and NSArray

If, While and Switch Statements

Classes and Structures

Functions, Parameters and Return Types

Protocols

User Interfaces

Adding Blur Effects to Your Views

Presenting Temporary Information on the Screen with Popovers

Displaying Alerts and Action Sheets

Loading Web Pages with WebKit

Extensions

Building Custom Keyboards

Creating a Service Within Your App with Action Extensions

HealthKit

Retrieving and Modifying User’s Weight Information

Accessing and Modifying User’s Height Information

Reading and Modifying the User’s Total Calories Burned

HomeKit

Discovering and Managing HomeKit Enabled Accessories

Interacting with HomeKit Accessories

Concurrency

Creating Simple Concurrency with Operations

Completing a Long-Running Task in the Background

Networking

Downloading Data Using NSURLSession

Downloading Asynchronously with NSURLConnection

Address Book

Retrieving a Person Entity with System UI

Retrieving a Property of a Person Entity with System UI

Retrieving All the People in the Address Book

Retrieving and Setting a Person’s Address Book Image

Files and Folders

Writing to and Reading from Files

Enumerating Files and Folders

Core Data

Performing Batch Updates on Core Data

Reading Data From Core Data

Deleting Data From Core Data

Fetching Data in the Background

Cloud Kit

Storing Data with CloudKit

Retrieving Data with CloudKit

Querying the Cloud with CloudKit

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