So Here’s the Plan

Our goal for this book is to create a plausibly realistic and useful app, to the point where we can take it through the process of publication on the App Store in the final chapter. To accomplish this, we will spend a few chapters playing around with the Swift language, and then create the app project and slowly build out its functionality. This approach is similar to real-world development, so much so that we’ll take time partway through to reorganize our work for maintainability and code reuse. We’ll also spend time on important non-code topics, like testing and debugging, which are crucial and sometimes overlooked parts of the development process.

With that in mind, here’s where our journey will take us:

• Chapter 1, ​Playing with Xcode​,
• Chapter 2, ​Starting with Swift​,
• Chapter 3, ​Swift with Style​,
• Chapter 4, ​Building User Interfaces​,
• Chapter 5, ​Connecting the UI to Code​,
• Chapter 6, ​Testing the App​,
• Chapter 7, ​Working with Tables​,
• Chapter 8, ​Managing Time with Closures​,
• Chapter 9, ​Doing Two Things at Once with Closures​,
• Chapter 10, ​Managing the App’s Growth​,
• Chapter 11, ​Moving Between View Controllers​,
• Chapter 12, ​Making the Most of Big Screens​,
• Chapter 13, ​Handling Touch Gestures​,
• Chapter 14, ​Viewing and Editing Photos​,
• Chapter 15, ​Interacting with iOS and Other Apps​,
• Chapter 16, ​Fixing the App When It Breaks​,
• Chapter 17, ​Publishing and Maintaining the App​.