Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript

This book builds on your knowledge of ActionScript to take you on to the fast track developing iOS apps with Apple’s latest language, Swift. 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 and richer expressiveness than both ActionScript and Objective-C.Switching to a new platform usually involves migration on three levels: tools, workflow, and programming language. This book is structured as a guide that will help you on each level with step-by-step tutorials. Apart from the tutorials, it comes with recipes for some of the most popular mobile development topics: social network integration and messaging, taking advantage of device capabilities, networking and working with local and iCloud data, advertising in your app or game, and 2D and 3D graphics. The book also includes a final chapter that takes you through Apple’s App Store submission process. Don’t just build your apps, sell them.What You Will Learn: * Expand your development knowledge to native iOS programming with Swift * Use the latest Xcode 7 IDE * Migrate your existing ActionScript projects to Swift * Create advanced UI, leverage the device hardware, integrate with social networks, take advantage of 2D and 3D graphics * Diagnose your app quickly with Xcode’s debugger and instruments * Prepare and submit our iOS app in Apple’s App Store Who This Book is For:__Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript__ is for Flash and Adobe AIR developers who want to move on to native iOS programming with the latest Apple Swift language. It’s for the seasoned ActionScript programmer who is looking to add another language and platform to their tool belt quickly. __Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript__ is a good choice for developers who learn by doing and don’t have time to read thick manuals and books for beginners in order to start programming in a new language. This book builds on your knowledge of ActionScript to take you on to the fast track developing iOS apps with Apple’s latest language, Swift. 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 and richer expressiveness than both ActionScript and Objective-C. Switching to a new platform usually involves migration on three levels: tools, workflow, and programming language. This book is structured as a guide that will help you on each level with step-by-step tutorials. Apart from the tutorials, it comes with recipes for some of the most popular mobile development topics: social network integration and messaging, taking advantage of device capabilities, networking and working with local and iCloud data, advertising in your app or game, and 2D and 3D graphics. The book also includes a final chapter that takes you through Apple’s App Store submission process. Don’t just build your apps, sell them. What You Will Learn: Expand your development knowledge to native iOS programming with Swift Use the latest Xcode 7 IDE Migrate your existing ActionScript projects to Swift Create advanced UI, leverage the device hardware, integrate with social networks, take advantage of 2D and 3D graphics Diagnose your app quickly with Xcode’s debugger and instruments Prepare and submit our iOS app in Apple’s App Store Who This Book is For: Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript is for Flash and Adobe AIR developers who want to move on to native iOS programming with the latest Apple Swift language. It’s for the seasoned ActionScript programmer who is looking to add another language and platform to their tool belt quickly. Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript is a good choice for developers who learn by doing and don’t have time to read thick manuals and books for beginners in order to start programming in a new language. 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 and richer expressiveness than either ActionScript or Objective-C. Switching to a new platform usually involves migration on three levels: tools, workflow, and programming language. Migrating to Swift from Flash and ActionScript is structured as a guide that will help you on each level with step-by-step tutorials. Apart from the tutorials, it comes with recipes for some of the most popular mobile development topics: social network integration and messaging, taking advantage of device capabilities, networking and working with local and iCloud data, advertising in your app or game, and working with 2D and 3D graphics. The book also includes a final chapter that takes you through Apple's App Store submission process. Don't just build your apps, sell them. This book Leverages your ActionScript skills and experience to give you a head start with Swift and iOS, including updates for Swift 3 Gives you the fastest way to migrate to a new set of tools, workflow, and programming language with illustrated step-by-step tutorials Walks you through a tutorial for developing more complex UIs Serves as a quick reference with recipes for specific mobile development tasks Provides a set of focused chapters that serve as both introduction and reference for the Swift language Front Matter....Pages i-xxix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Setting Up Your Environment....Pages 3-13 Hello, Xcode!....Pages 15-37 Introducing the Xcode Debugger....Pages 39-49 Additional Development Tools....Pages 51-68 Front Matter....Pages 69-69 “Hello, Swift!”—A Tutorial for Building an iOS App....Pages 71-103 Adding a More Complex UI....Pages 105-170 Concurrency....Pages 171-189 Debugging and Testing Your App....Pages 191-218 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Communicating: E-mail, Text Messages, and Calls....Pages 221-232 Getting Social: Posting to Facebook and Twitter....Pages 233-244 Knowing Your Location....Pages 245-256 Working with the Camera and Images....Pages 257-271 Working with Data....Pages 273-303 Networking....Pages 305-325 Adverts and Push Notifications....Pages 327-349 Using the High-End Graphics APIs....Pages 351-369 Front Matter....Pages 371-371 Swift Language Basics....Pages 373-387 Operators....Pages 389-397 Types....Pages 399-420 Control Flow....Pages 421-440 Front Matter....Pages 371-371 Object-Oriented Programming Topics....Pages 441-465 New and Different Concepts....Pages 467-482 Releasing Your App in the App Store....Pages 483-502 Back Matter....Pages 503-510