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Ready to build stunning apps for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch? This cookbook - completely rewritten with all-new material - provides 90 proven solutions for tackling the latest features in iOS 9 and watchOS 2.0. Written exclusively in Apple's Swift language, these code-rich recipes show you how to use dynamic user interfaces, interactive maps, multitasking functionality, Apple's new UI Testing framework, and many other features.This cookbook is ideal for intermediate and advanced iOS developers looking to work with the newest versions of Apple's mobile operating systems. Each recipe includes reusable code, available on GitHub, that you can put to work right away.Work with new features in Swift 2, Xcode 7, and Interface BuilderBuild standalone apps for Apple WatchCreate vibrant user interfaces with new UIKit featuresUse Swift to connect with the iOS contacts databaseBlock ads or obtrusive content with Safari Content BlockersMake your app content searchable with Spotlight APIsAdd Picture in Picture playback functionality to iPad appsTake advantage of MapKit and Core Location updatesUse Apple's new UI Testing frameworkLiven up your UI with gravity and turbulence fields.
About the Author
Vandad Nahavandipoor is currently an iOS programmer for a leading digital media distributor in London, United Kingdom. He has led an international team of more than 30 iOS developers in his previous job. Some of the projects he has lead include the NatWest and the RBS iOS apps running on millions of iPhones and iPads in the UK. Vandad received his B.Sc and M.Sc in Information Technology for E-Commerce from the University of Sussex in England.
Vandad's programming experience started when he first learned Basic on his father's Commodore 64. He then took this experience and applied it on his uncle's Intel 186 computer, running Basic on DOS. At this point, he found programming for personal computers exciting indeed and moved on to learn Object Pascal. This allowed him to learn Borland Delphi quite easily. He wrote a short 400 pages book on Borland Delphi and dedicated the book to Borland. From then, he picked up x86 Assembly programming and wrote a hobby 32-bit operating system named Vandior. It wasn't until late 2007 when iOS programming became his main focus.
Aside from programming, Vandad is a road cyclist, enjoying friendly competition in cyclosportive events in England and traveling long distance on his bicycle to other European countries every now and then. He also enjoys tinkering with his piano and playing electric guitar. Some of his electric guitar performances are available on YouTube.
