Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift


Book Description

From learning about the most sought-after design patterns to a comprehensive coverage of architectural patterns and code testing, this book is all you need to write clean, reusable code Key FeaturesWrite clean, reusable and maintainable code, and make the most of the latest Swift version.Analyze case studies of some of the popular open source projects and give your workflow a huge boostChoose patterns such as MVP, MVC, and MVVM depending on the application being builtBook Description Swift keeps gaining traction not only amongst Apple developers but also as a server-side language. This book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that's for new or already existing projects. You’ll begin with a quick refresher on Swift, the compiler, the standard library, and the foundation, followed by the Cocoa design patterns – the ones at the core of many cocoa libraries – to follow up with the creational, structural, and behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. You'll get acquainted with application architecture, as well as the most popular architectural design patterns, such as MVC and MVVM, and learn to use them in the context of Swift. In addition, you’ll walk through dependency injection and functional reactive programming. Special emphasis will be given to techniques to handle concurrency, including callbacks, futures and promises, and reactive programming. These techniques will help you adopt a test-driven approach to your workflow in order to use Swift Package Manager and integrate the framework into the original code base, along with Unit and UI testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build applications that are scalable, faster, and easier to maintain. What you will learnWork efficiently with Foundation and Swift Standard libraryUnderstand the most critical GoF patterns and use them efficientlyUse Swift 4.2 and its unique capabilities (and limitations) to implement and improve GoF patternsImprove your application architecture and optimize for maintainability and performanceWrite efficient and clean concurrent programs using futures and promises, or reactive programming techniquesUse Swift Package Manager to refactor your program into reusable componentsLeverage testing and other techniques for writing robust codeWho this book is for This book is for intermediate developers who want to apply design patterns with Swift to structure and scale their applications. You are expected to have basic knowledge of iOS and Swift.




Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift


Book Description

From learning about the most sought-after design patterns to a comprehensive coverage of architectural patterns and code testing, this book is all you need to write clean, reusable code Key Features Write clean, reusable and maintainable code, and make the most of the latest Swift version. Analyze case studies of some of the popular open source projects and give your workflow a huge boost Choose patterns such as MVP, MVC, and MVVM depending on the application being built Book Description Swift keeps gaining traction not only amongst Apple developers but also as a server-side language. This book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that's for new or already existing projects. You'll begin with a quick refresher on Swift, the compiler, the standard library, and the foundation, followed by the Cocoa design patterns - the ones at the core of many cocoa libraries - to follow up with the creational, structural, and behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. You'll get acquainted with application architecture, as well as the most popular architectural design patterns, such as MVC and MVVM, and learn to use them in the context of Swift. In addition, you'll walk through dependency injection and functional reactive programming. Special emphasis will be given to techniques to handle concurrency, including callbacks, futures and promises, and reactive programming. These techniques will help you adopt a test-driven approach to your workflow in order to use Swift Package Manager and integrate the framework into the original code base, along with Unit and UI testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build applications that are scalable, faster, and easier to maintain. What you will learn Work efficiently with Foundation and Swift Standard library Understand the most critical GoF patterns and use them efficiently Use Swift 4.2 and its unique capabilities (and limitations) to implement and improve GoF patterns Improve your application architecture and optimize for maintainability and performance Write efficient and clean concurrent programs using futures and promises, or reactive programming techniques Use Swift Package Manager to refactor your program into reusable components Leverage testing and other techniques for writing robust code Who this book is for This book is for intermediate developers who want to apply design patterns with Swift to structure and scale their applications. You are expected to have basic knowledge of iOS and Swift.




Design Patterns by Tutorials


Book Description

Learn iOS Design Patterns! Design patterns are reusable solutions to common development problems. They aren't project specific, so you can adapt and use them in countless apps. By learning design patterns, you'll become a better developer, save time and work less. Design Patterns by Tutorials is here to help! This book is the easiest and fastest way to get hands-on experience with the iOS design patterns you need to know. Who This Book Is For Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced iOS developer, this book is for you. You can either read this book from cover to cover, or skip around to just the patterns you want to learn. Topics Covered in Design Patterns by Tutorials Getting Started: You'll first learn about how design patterns work and how they can help you build better, cleaner apps. Fundamental Patterns: You'll progress onto fundamental design patterns, such as MVC, Delegation, and Strategy, which you're likely to use on every iOS app. Intermediate Patterns: You'll then learn about intermediate design patterns, such as MVVM, Factory, and Adapter, which are less common than fundamental patterns but still very useful for most apps. You'll finish off by learning about advanced design patterns, including Flyweight, Mediator and Command. You likely won't use these on every app, but they may be just what you need to solve a difficult problem. One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be well-prepared to use design patterns in your own apps!




Pro Design Patterns in Swift


Book Description

The Swift programming language has transformed the world of iOS development and started a new age of modern development. Pro Design Patterns in Swift shows you how to harness the power and flexibility of Swift to apply the most important and enduring design patterns to your applications, taking your development projects to master level. This book will teach you those design patterns that have always been present at some level in your code, but may not have been recognized, acknowledged, or fully utilized. Implementation of specific pattern approaches will prove their value to any Swift developer. Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from design patterns. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. Pro Design Patterns in Swift brings design patterns to life and shows you how to bring structure and scale to your Swift code with a practical, no-nonsense approach.




Design Patterns in Swift 5: Learn how to Implement the Gang of Four Design Patterns Using Swift 5. Improve Your Coding Skills.


Book Description

Software developers need to solve various problems. Many times, these problems are the same or similar to the ones they've already encountered in other projects. Wouldn't it be great to apply the solution you've found instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again?That's precisely the reason why software design patterns exist. A design pattern is a standardized way to address a recurring problem. Relying on a proven strategy will not only save you time, but you can rest assured that it's indeed the right choice. Design patterns are the result of a long evolution process. It all started with a book published in 1994 - yes, it's that old! - called "Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software." That's a quite tedious title, so we usually refer to it as "the book by the gang of four." The gang consists of four renowned software engineers: Erich Gamma, Ralph Johnson, Richard Helm, and John Vlissides. They identified the most significant common issues that occurred in multiple projects and developed best practices to solve them. The best part: these solutions are (programming) language-agnostic. You can use the design patterns with any object-oriented programming language. Many modern programming languages and frameworks have integrated the GoF patterns. You don't have to write additional code to support say the Iterator or the Observer.Swift is no exception. Actually, it provides many advanced language features and constructs --such as type extensions, lazy initialization, and predefined protocols -- that let us adopt and integrate the design patterns into our projects easily. This book covers all these topics and provides best practices you can apply in your upcoming projects.




Swift in Depth


Book Description

Summary Now updated for Swift 5! Swift is more than just a fun language to build iOS applications with. It features a host of powerful tools that, if effectively used, can help you create even better apps with clean, crystal-clear code and awesome features. Swift in Depth is designed to help you unlock these tools and quirks and get developing next-gen apps, web services, and more! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology It's fun to create your first toy iOS or Mac app in Swift. Writing secure, reliable, professional-grade software is a different animal altogether. The Swift language includes an amazing set of high-powered features, and it supports a wide range of programming styles and techniques. You just have to roll up your sleeves and learn Swift in depth. About the Book Swift in Depth guides you concept by concept through the skills you need to build professional software for Apple platforms, such as iOS and Mac; also on the server with Linux. By following the numerous concrete examples, enlightening explanations, and engaging exercises, you'll finally grok powerful techniques like generics, efficient error handling, protocol-oriented programming, and advanced Swift patterns. Author Tjeerd in 't Veen reveals the high-value, difficult-to-discover Swift techniques he's learned through his own hard-won experience. What's inside Covers Swift 5 Writing reusable code with generics Iterators, sequences, and collections Protocol-oriented programming Understanding map, flatMap, and compactMap Asynchronous error handling with ResultBest practices in Swift About the Reader Written for advanced-beginner and intermediate-level Swift programmers. About the Author Tjeerd in 't Veen is a senior software engineer and architect in the mobile division of a large international banking firm. Table of Contents Introducing Swift in depth Modeling data with enums Writing cleaner properties Making optionals second nature Demystifying initializers Effortless error handling Generics Putting the pro in protocol-oriented programming Iterators, sequences, and collections Understanding map, flatMap, and compactMap Asynchronous error handling with Result Protocol extensions Swift patterns Delivering quality Swift code Where to Swift from here




App Architecture


Book Description

This book explains a range of application design patterns and their implementation techniques using a single example app, fully implemented in five design patterns. Instead of advocating for any particular pattern, we lay out the problems all architectures are trying to address: constructing the app's components, communicating between the view and the model, and handling non-model state. We show high-level solutions to these problems and break them down to the level of implementation for five different design patterns - two commonly used and three more experimental.The common architectures are Model-View-Controller and Model-View-ViewModel + Coordinator. In addition to explaining these patterns conceptually and on the implementation level, we discuss solutions to commonly encountered problems, like massive view controllers. On the experimental side we explain View-State-Driven Model-View-Controller, ModelAdapter-ViewBinder, and The Elm Architecture. By examining these experimental patterns, we extract valuable lessons that can be applied to other patterns and to existing code bases.




Learning Swift


Book Description

Get hands-on experience with Apple’s Swift programming language by building real working apps. With this practical guide, skilled programmers with little or no knowledge of Apple development will learn how to code with Swift 2 by developing three complete, tightly linked versions of the Notes application for the OS X, iOS, and watchOS platforms. In the process, you’ll learn Swift’s fundamentals, including its syntax and features, along with the basics of the Cocoa, CocoaTouch, and WatchKit frameworks. This book teaches you how to use common design patterns for Swift, how to structure an application for Apple’s platforms, and how to submit working apps to the App Store. Divided into four distinct parts, this book includes: Swift 2 basics: Learn Swift’s features for object-oriented development, as well as various developer tools OS X app development: Set up your app, work with its documents, and build out its features iOS app development: Use multimedia, contacts, location, notifications, and iCloud files to build a fully featured iOS Notes app Advanced app extensions: Support Apple Watch and learn how to debug, monitor, and test all three of your Swift apps




Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift


Book Description

Take advantage of using the same programming language for both server and client-side with this hands-on book for building web applications with Swift. Key FeaturesBuild a full-stack iOS and web applications using Swift, Vapor, and Kitura FrameworkLeverage ORM abstraction drivers to make queries to SQL databaseDevelop your very own containerized microservices with Swift, Docker and KubernetesBook Description This book is about building professional web applications and web services using Swift 4.0 and leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5. In the first part of this book, we’ll focus on the creation of basic web applications from Vapor and Kitura boilerplate projects. As the web apps start out simple, more useful techniques, such as unit test development, debugging, logging, and the build and release process, will be introduced to readers. In the second part, we’ll learn different aspects of web application development with server-side Swift, including setting up routes and controllers to process custom client requests, working with template engines such as Leaf and Stencil to create dynamic web content, beautifying the content with Bootstrap, managing user access with authentication framework, and leveraging the Object Relational Mapping (ORM) abstraction layer (Vapor’s Fluent and Kitura’s Kuery) to perform database operations. Finally, in the third part, we’ll develop web services in Swift and build our API Gateway, microservices and database backend in a three-tier architecture design. Readers will learn how to design RESTful APIs, work with asynchronous processes, and leverage container technology such as Docker in deploying microservices to cloud hosting services such as Vapor Cloud and IBM Cloud. What you will learnBuild simple web apps using Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5Test, debug, build, and release server-side Swift applicationsDesign routes and controllers for custom client requestsWork with server-side template enginesDeploy web apps to a host in the cloudEnhance web content with BootstrapManage user access using authentication frameworkDesign for API gatewayDevelop an iPhone app to work with web servicesDeploy your app as a microservice in a clusterDeploy Swift web services with a RESTful API designWho this book is for This book is about building professional web applications and web services using Swift and leveraging two popular Swift web frameworks: Vapor 3.0 and Kitura 2.5. We assume the readers to have some working knowledge of Swift programming language. The readers could be beginners of Swift programming, seasonal iOS or macOS developers, or software developers who want to work on practical Swift applications while learning the language itself. By the end of the book, you would be able to successfully create your own web applications and web services by leveraging the powerful ecosystem of Swift.




Mastering Swift 5


Book Description

Harness the power of the latest edition with this in-depth and comprehensive guide to the Swift language Key FeaturesFifth edition of this bestselling book, improved and updated to cover the latest version of the Swift 5 programming languageGet to grips with popular and modern design techniques to write easy-to-manage Swift codeLearn how to use core Swift features such as concurrency, generics, and copy-on-write in your codeBook Description Over the years, the Mastering Swift book has established itself amongst developers as a popular choice as an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. The latest edition is fully updated and revised to cover the new version: Swift 5. Inside this book, you'll find the key features of Swift 5 easily explained with complete sets of examples. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this definitive guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the Swift language. Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition will give you an in-depth knowledge of some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. It will guide you on how to use and apply them in your own projects. Later, you'll see how to leverage the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code. You will also see how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types and how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles. What you will learnUnderstand core Swift components, including operators, collections, control flows, and functionsLearn how and when to use classes, structures, and enumerationsUnderstand how to use protocol-oriented design with extensions to write easier-to-manage codeUse design patterns with Swift, to solve commonly occurring design problemsImplement copy-on-write for you custom value types to improve performanceAdd concurrency to your applications using Grand Central Dispatch and Operation QueuesImplement generics to write flexible and reusable codeWho this book is for This book is for developers who want to delve into the newest version of Swift. If you are a developer and learn best by looking at and working with code, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of Apple's tools would be beneficial but not mandatory. All examples should work on the Linux platform as well.




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