Learn Swift on the Mac: For OS X and iOS

There's a new language in town. Swift is Apple's new, native, fast, and easy to learn programming language for iOS and OS X app development. It's their "Objective-C without the C." If you are an iOS developer or planning to become one, learning Swift is your #1 priority, and Learn Swift on the Mac tells you everything you need to get up to speed, well, swiftly.You'll start with the Swift Playground and an introduction to object-oriented programming so you can immediately see Swift in action. You then learn about all of the key language features like functions and closures, classes, methods, extensions, and how Swift works just as well as Objective-C when it comes to easy memory management with ARC.Finally you'll learn how to use Swift alongside Objective-C as well as with Core Data, and you'll learn how to put all of the pieces together with a health app using Apple's new HealthKit framework. What you'll learnObject-oriented basics with Swift and the Swift PlaygroundHow to use key language features like functions and classes in SwiftHow to mix and match Swift and Objective-CHow to use RESTful services with SwiftHow to create a complete app with Swift and HealthKitWho this book is forBeginning to intermediate iOS and OS X developers who need to learn Swift or migrate to Swift from Objective-C. Table of Contents1. Hello Swift2. The Swift Playground in Xcode 63. Accessing Swift s Compiler and REPL4. Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming5. Constants, Variables, and Data Types6. Operators7. Flow Control8. Functions and Closures9. Classes and Structures10. Methods11. Access Control12. Inheritance13. Extensions14. Memory Management and ARC15. Protocols16. Generics17. Expressions18. Interoperability with Objective-C19. Mix and Match20. Working with Core Data21. Consuming RESTful Services22. Bringing it All Together"