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by Wallace Wang (Author)
Develop your own bestselling iPhone and iPad apps
Use Swift playgrounds
Optimize your code and deliver great user experiences
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You know the basics. Your Swift code flows with logic and ease. This isn't your first time building a workable app for iOS platforms. Now, it's time to build a magical app for iOS platforms! Move beyond what you mastered in the best-selling Beginning iPhone Development with SwiftUI.
This revised and expanded Fourth Edition enlightens you to the world of rich design, solid code, and thoughtful processing needed to make apps that wow. Integrate all these extraordinary iOS features and embrace the world of possibilities in the Swift programming language with SwiftUI. New chapters cover customizing grids, using ViewThatFits, adding search and share links, using SpriteKit, and Developing Tests.
Not only will your apps run like magic under the hood but with the new standard of SwiftUI, you'll add animations, scaling, multiscreen support, and so much more to your interfaces. Debug Swift code, use multi-threaded programming with Grand Central Dispatch, pass data between view controllers, and design apps functional in multiple languages. You'll also see how to integrate audio and video files in your apps, access the camera and send pictures to and from the Photos library, use location services to pinpoint your user's position on a map, and display web pages in-app.
Don't just stop at flawless code and stickily engaging interfaces. Pro iPhone Development with SwiftUI explains how to give your apps a mind with Apple's advanced frameworks for machine learning, facial and text recognition, and augmented reality.
You will:
- 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
Author Biography
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.
