Beginning iPhone Development with Swift : Exploring the iOS SDK The team that brought you the bestselling Beginning iPhone Development the book that taught the world how to program on the iPhone is back again for Beginning iPhone Development with Swift.This definitive guide is up to date with Apples new Swift programming language and the latest and greatest iOS 8 SDK and Xcode 6.1. There’s coverage of brand new technologies including Swift playgrounds as well as significant updates to existing material. Youll have everything you need to create your very own apps for the latest iOS devices. Every single sample app in the book has been rebuilt from scratch using the latest Xcode and the latest 64 bit iOS 8 specific project templates and designed to take advantage of the latest Xcode features. Assuming little or no working knowledge of the new Swift programming language and written in a friendly easy to follow style this book offers a complete soup to nuts course in iPhone iPad and iPod touch programming. The book starts with the basics walking through the process of downloading and installing Xcode 6.1 and the iOS 8 SDK and then guides you though the creation of your first simple application. From there you’ll learn how to integrate all the interface elements iOS users have come to know and love such as buttons switches pickers toolbars and sliders. You’ll master a variety of design patterns from the simplest single view to complex hierarchical drill downs. The art of table building will be demystified and you’ll learn how to save your data using the iPhone file system. You’ll also learn how to save and retrieve your data using a variety of persistence techniques including Core Data and SQLite. And there’s much more!