Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift 3—the latest version of Apple's acclaimed programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you'll learn Swift's object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple's development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functionality iOS apps need to have.

Explore Swift's object-oriented concepts: variables and functions, scopes and namespaces, object types and instances

Become familiar with built-in Swift types such as numbers, strings, ranges, tuples, Optionals, arrays, dictionaries, and sets

Learn how to declare, instantiate, and customize Swift object types: enums, structs, and classes

Discover powerful Swift features such as protocols and generics

Catch up on Swift 3 innovations: revised APIs, new Foundation bridged types, and more

Tour the lifecycle of an Xcode...