Developing iOS Apps with Swift

Do you want to write native apps for iOS, but NSString *string = @"This syntax sucks!"; scares you? Never fear, Swift is here. Swift is a modern, fast and powerful language that will become the de-facto standard for writing iOS apps. Come to this session to take a look at how to build an app from scratch using this new language.

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1. Developing iOS Apps with Swift Michael Crump | @mbcrump | michaelcrump.net Telerik
3. –Craig Federighi “Swift is fast, modern, safe, interactive…”
4. • Type Inference • Optionals • Generics • Working with Strings • Much More… Devs
5. What was the initial reaction from developers around the world?
6. iOS Devs
7. Every other Developer
10. But you really want the iOS market share…
11. iEverything
12. Won’t be fighting the Obj-C Monster!
13. We’re Going with Swift!
14. But we quickly found out… Swift 1.0 was just a Newborn
15. Swift 1.2 A Baby
16. Swift 2.0 (Beta) A Toddler
18. WWDC 15
19. What Stood Out? • Open Sourced Swift 2.0 • Deploy iOS Apps to Devices w/o Dev Account • One Dev Center for Mac/Safari/iOS • Developer Forums Opened to Everyone • Public Betas of iOS 9
21. Goal: Get you excited to write iOS Apps using Swift
22. Resources • Search “Swift” from the iBooks Application. • Search “Stanford Swift” from the iTunes Application. • https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/ - Official blog by Apple on Swift. • Slides & Source Code is github.com/mbcrump/ COTB2015.
23. UI for iOS Charts ListView DataForm Alert Calendar SideDrawer DataSource AppFeedback telerik.com/ios-ui
24. NativeScript nativescript.org
25. Michael Crump | @mbcrump | michaelcrump.net Telerik Slides/Demos github.com/mbcrump/COTB2015