Expert Swift (First Edition)

Book excerpt: Deep Dive Into Swift!Swift is a rich language with a plethora of features to offer. Reading the official documentation or entry-level books is important, but it's not enough to grasp the true power of the language.Expert Swift is here to help, by showing you how to harness the full power of Swift. You'll learn about advanced usages of protocols, generics, functional reactive programming, API design and more.Who This Book is ForThis book is for intermediate Swift developers who already know the basics of Swift and are looking to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the language.Topics Covered in Expert SwiftProtocols and Generics: Learn how protocols and generics work, and how you can leverage them in your code to produce clean, long-lasting and easy-to-refactor APIs.Sequences and Collections: Learn how to use Sequences and Collections to write generic algorithms that operate across type families.Unsafe: Understand the memory layout of types and how to use typed and untyped pointers.Functional Reactive Programming: Explore the most important and refined concepts of functional reactive programming and how you can apply these concepts to your apps.Objective-C Interoperability: Learn how to expose Objective-C code to Swift and vice versa.Library and API Design: Enhancing your skill set and intuition for designing great APIs.One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be prepared to use the advanced features of Swift and improve your existing code with the knowledge you'll acquire.