Preface

Swift Essentials provides an overview of the Swift language and the tooling necessary to write iOS applications. From simple Swift commands on the command line to interactively testing graphical content in the Playground editor, the Swift language and syntax is introduced by examples.

The book also introduces end-to-end iOS application development by showing you how a simple iOS application can be created, followed by how to use storyboards and custom views to build a more complex networked application.

The book concludes by providing a worked example from scratch that builds up a GitHub repository browser.