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 project from inception to App Store including Xcode s new automatic code signing and powerful new debugging features Construct app interfaces with the nib editor, Interface Builder Understand Cocoa s event-driven model and its major design patterns and features Find out how Swift communicates with Cocoa s C and Objective-C APIs Once you master the fundamentals, you ll be ready to tackle the details of iOS app development with author Matt Neuburg s companion guide, Programming iOS 10 . ".