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Pro iPhone Development with Swift 5

Design and Manage Top Quality Apps

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  • Develop your own bestselling iPhone and iPad apps
  • Use Swift playgrounds
  • Optimize your code and deliver great user experiences

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Organizing Code

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 1-26
  3. Debugging Code

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 27-50
  4. Understanding Closures

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 51-59
  5. Understanding the Application Life Cycle

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 89-111
  6. Understanding Data Persistence

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 113-153
  7. Passing Data Between Files

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 155-199
  8. Translating with Localization

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 201-233
  9. Using 3D Touch

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 235-276
  10. Detecting Motion and Orientation

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 277-292
  11. Using Location and Maps

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 293-311
  12. Playing Audio and Video

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 313-332
  13. Using the Camera

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 333-344
  14. Using WebKit

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 345-356
  15. Displaying Animation

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 357-398
  16. Using Machine Learning

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 399-432
  17. Using Facial and Text Recognition

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 433-469
  18. Using Speech

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 471-490
  19. Understanding SiriKit

    • Wallace Wang
    Pages 491-518

About this book

If you’ve already learned the basics of Swift and iOS programming, it’s time to take your skills to the next level. In this follow up work to the best-selling Beginning iPhone Development with Swift, you’ll learn tips for organizing and debugging Swift code, using multi-threaded programming with Grand Central Dispatch, passing data between view controllers, and designing apps for multiple languages.

You’ll also see how to play audio and video files, access the camera and save pictures to the Photos library, use location services to pinpoint your position on a map, display web pages, and create animation to spice up any user interface. Finally, you’ll learn how to use Apple’s advanced frameworks for machine learning, facial and text recognition, and creating augmented reality apps.

Pro iPhone Development with Swift 5 provides insightful instruction on how to improve your existing apps or create powerful new iOS apps using the latest version of the Swift programming language.  

What You Will Learn

  • Save and retrieve data when apps close or get pushed in the background
  • Recognize speech with Apple’s advanced frameworks 
  • Create augmented reality apps
  • Understand spoken commands with Siri



Who This Book is For


Aspiring iOS app developers familiar with the Apple Swift programming language and/or the iOS SDK, but ready to move to the next level.


Authors and Affiliations

  • San Diego, USA

    Wallace Wang

About the author

Wallace Wang is a former Windows enthusiast who took one look at Vista and realized that the future of computing belonged to the Mac. He s written more than 40 computer books, including Microsoft Office for Dummies, Beginning Programming for Dummies, Steal This Computer Book, My New Mac, and My New iPad. In addition to programming the Mac and iPhone/iPad, he also performs stand-up comedy, having appeared on A&E s "Evening at the Improv," and having performed in Las Vegas at the Riviera Comedy Club at the Riviera Hotel & Casino. When he’s not writing computer books or performing stand-up comedy, he also enjoys blogging about screenwriting at his site, The 15 Minute Movie Method, where he shares screenwriting tips with other aspiring screenwriters who all share the goal of breaking into Hollywood.

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eBook USD 34.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever

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