Programming Swift! Mac Apps 1

Programming Swift! Mac Apps 1

Programming Swift! Mac Apps 1 is all about getting started building Mac applications with Xcode. <br /><br />The book covers visual programming with storyboards and interface builder. You’ll be working with latest version of Xcode and Swift, building modern Mac applications.<br /><br />The book has 17 hands on chapters and several projects that you will build from the ground up. You’ll start building small, throw-away demo apps that focus on a new topic then you’ll build a complete app that combines these topics and shows you how to put them together in a real application.<br /><br />You will learn about:<br /><br />App architecture and building blocks.<br />MVC.<br />Outlets, Actions.<br />Cocoa application storyboards, scenes and segues.<br />The assistant editor and manual code connections.<br />Application life cycles, app delegate events and view events.<br />The Xcode object library, sender objects, dual personality connections.<br />None-Visual objects: Timer and sound objects.<br />Auto Layout and the stack view system.<br />Basic debugging.<br />Programming for the responder chain and first responder object <br />Menus and toolbars.<br />The app About Box <br />Applications with multiple views and windows.<br />Tabbed views and relationship segues.<br />More segues for panels, alerts, sheets and the representedObject.<br />File Open/Save panels, file manager objects and image controls.<br />Xcode Asset Catalog and a larger project app: Asset Maker (you’ll build an app that can create icons for your projects).<br />The user defaults class - saving application settings and adding a preferences pane.<br />Introduction to data sources and delegates. <br />Use data-driven combo-box.<br />Data models, build a Swift singleton class to act as the Model in MVC.<br />Database apps<br />Table Views - both cell based and view based table views that persist data to XML<br />The all new, modern NSCollectionView with delegates, data sources and flow layout. <br />