Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript

• Main Authors: Leseva Adams, Radoslava (Author), Lesev, Hristo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2016.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer programming.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Apple and iOS.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering.

This book builds on your knowledge of ActionScript and takes you on the fast track to developing iOS apps with Swift, Apple’s latest language. Swift’s syntax is easier to understand than Objective-C for people already familiar with ActionScript. At the same time, it offers a number of new features a...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Tool Migration
• 1. Setting Up Your Environment
• 2. Hello, Xcode!
• 3. Introducing the Xcode Debugger
• 4. Additional Development Tools
• Part II. Workflow Migration
• 5. "Hello, Swift!" - A Tutorial for Building an iOS App
• 6. Adding a More Complex UI
• 7. Concurrency
• 8. Debugging and Testing Your App
• Part III. Making Apps with Swift-Applied Examples
• 9. Communicating: E-mail, Text Messages, and Calls
• 10. Getting Social: Posting to Facebook and Twitter
• 11. Knowing your Location
• 12. Working with the Camera and Images
• 13. Working with Data
• 14. Networking
• 15. Adding Advertisements and Notifications
• 16. Using the High-End Graphics APIs
• Part IV. Language Migration
• 17. Swift Language Basics
• 18. Operators
• 19. Types
• 20. Control Flow
• 21. Object-Oriented Programming Topics
• 22. New and Different Concepts
• 23. Releasing your App in the App Store.