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 Result
• Best 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.