Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode 13 IDE, Cocoa Touch, and the latest version of Apple’s acclaimed programming language, Swift 5.5. With this thoroughly updated guide, you’ll learn the Swift language, understand Apple’s Xcode development tools, and discover the Cocoa framework.

Explore Swift’s object-oriented concepts

Become familiar with built-in Swift types

Dive deep into Swift objects, protocols, and generics

Tour the life cycle of an Xcode project

Learn how nibs are loaded

Understand Cocoa’s event-driven design

Communicate with C and Objective-C

In this edition, catch up on the latest iOS programming features:

Structured concurrency: async/await, tasks, and actors

Swift native formatters and attributed strings

Lazy locals and throwing getters

Enhanced collections with the Swift Algorithms and Collections packages

Xcode tweaks: column breakpoints, package collections, and Info.plist build settings

Improvements in Git integration, localization, unit testing, documentation, and distribution

And more!