raywenderlich Tutorial Team

Shai Mishali

Marin Bencevic

Ehab Amer

Ray Fix

Deep Dive Into Swift!Swift is a rich language with a plethora of features to offer. Reading the official documentation or entry-level books is important, but it's not enough to grasp the true power of the language.Expert Swift is here to help, by showing you how to harness the full power of Swift. You'll learn about advanced usages of protocols, generics, functional reactive programming, API design and more.Who This Book is ForThis book is for intermediate Swift developers who already know the basics of Swift and are looking to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the language.Topics Covered in Expert SwiftProtocols and Generics: Learn how protocols and generics work, and how you can leverage them in your code to produce clean, long-lasting and easy-to-refactor APIs.Sequences and Collections: Learn how to use Sequences and Collections to write generic algorithms that operate across type families.Unsafe: Understand the memory layout of types and how to use typed and untyped pointers.Functional Reactive Programming: Explore the most important and refined concepts of functional reactive programming and how you can apply these concepts to your apps.Objective-C Interoperability: Learn how to expose Objective-C code to Swift and vice versa.Library and API Design: Enhancing your skill set and intuition for designing great APIs.One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to use the advanced features of Swift and improve your existing code with the knowledge you'll acquire.

An Advanced Exploration of the Swift Language

Expert Swift (First Edition)

Nick Bonatsakis

Andy Pereira

Learn to Run Your iOS Apps on macOS Using Catalyst!Catalyst allows you to take code that you've written for iOS devices and run it on macOS, opening up a whole new platform - and a new universe of users - that you can reach using your existing code and knowledge. But, there are differences in the platforms; you need to know these differences to make great macOS apps. In this book, you'll learn how to take an iOS app to macOS the easy way: by following fun and easy-to-read tutorials.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for any developer who wants to learn how to use Catalyst to apply iOS skills to developing apps for macOS.Topics Covered in Catalyst by TutorialsMulti-Window Support: Learn how to support multiple app windows on iPad and Mac.Drag-and-Drop: Copy and move images in your app using Drag-and-Drop API.Menus: Context menus are new to iPad, but on Mac, they're essential. Learn how to create context menus and the main menu for your Mac app.Keyboard shortcuts: Learn how to give your users a productivity boost with keyboard shortcuts.Preferences: Give your users control over settings in your apps with preferences.Mouse: One of the main differences between iOS and Mac apps is mouse support. Learn how this difference impacts your Catalyst app.Toolbar and TouchBar: Give your app some extra polish by supporting these Mac-only UI elements.Distribution: Once you have your Mac app, you'll learn what's different from iOS in getting that app to your users.One thing you can count on: After reading this book, you'll be prepared to take advantage of all that Catalyst has to offer!

Bringing IOS Apps to the Mac

Catalyst by Tutorials (Second Edition)

Marin Bencevic

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