Master Metal: The Next-Generation Graphics and GPU Programming Platform for Apple Developers Metal enables Apple developers to maximize performance in demanding tasks like 3D graphics, games, scientific programming, visualization, and GPU-accelerated machine learning. Metal® Programming Guide is the authoritative, practical guide to Metal for all iOS programmers who are interested in graphics programming but don’t know where to start. Pioneering Apple developer Janie Clayton covers everything from basic draw calls to advanced parallel computing, combining easy-to-understand conceptual explanations with well-tested Swift 4/Xcode 9 sample code (available for download at GitHub). Clayton introduces the essential Metal, graphics, and math concepts every graphics programmer needs to know. She also discusses key graphics-specific libraries, concepts, and Metal Classes, presenting techniques and examples you’ll find valuable for both graphics and data processing. Clayton also provides coverage of the Metal Compute Pipeline, demonstrating practical GPU programming applications ranging from image processing to neural networking. <ul>
<li>Quickly get a basic Metal project running</li> <li>Work with Metal resources and memory management</li> <li>Learn how shaders are compiled and accessed by the CPU</li> <li>Program both 2D and 3D graphics with Metal</li> <li>Import 3D models and assets from Blender, Maya, and other programs</li> <li>Apply imported textures to model objects</li> <li>Use multipass rendering to efficiently implement computationally expensive techniques</li> <li>Leverage tessellation to reduce mesh detail</li> <li>Use the GPU for a wide spectrum of general-purpose computing applications</li> <li>Get started with the Metal Performance Shaders Framework 
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Metal Programming Guide: Tutorial and Reference via Swift

Computers & Technology

Clayton, Janie

Programming

Addison-Wesley Professional

iOS 9 gives developers new tools for creating apps for iPhone and iPad, and our new edition of the classic iOS guide is updated to match. By writing clean, expressive, and maintainable Swift code, you'll be able to pull in the iOS 9 SDK's enormous feature set to deliver mobile applications. In this completely revised third edition, you'll work through an app's entire lifecycle, from creating the project to publishing on the App Store. iOS 9 is an exciting release for developers that fully delivers on Apple's promises. Features long in demand are finally coming to the platform. iOS gurus Chris Adamson and Janie Clayton will get you up to speed on the latest in writing apps for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Using the Swift 2.0 programming language, you'll take hold of the new capabilities of Apple's powerful new programming language to write cleaner, clearer, and more effective code than was previously possible. Starting with the basics, you'll see how Swift 2.0 offers more power with less boilerplate code, bringing elegant error-handling and functional programming concepts to your app development. After thoroughly exercising the language's features, you'll dig into the capabilities of the iOS frameworks by building a real-world app, from a simple button to a multi-screen client that cleanly handles multi-tasking, networking, touch gestures, and more. You'll see how to adapt a user interface from the smallest iPhone to the biggest iPad, and how extensions let an app spread its functionality throughout the system. What You Need:iOS 9 SDK Development requires a Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) or newer. All work is done in Xcode, a free download from the Mac App Store. Running apps on devices requires an Apple ID.

iOS 9 SDK Development: Creating iPhone and iPad Apps with Swift

Adamson, Chris

Pragmatic Bookshelf

All in on Swift! iOS 10 and Xcode 8 make it clearer than ever that Swift is Apple's language of the future. Core frameworks have been redesigned to work better with Swift, and the language itself continues to evolve quickly. iOS 10 SDK Development is the pure-Swift approach to developing for the iOS platform. This completely revised and updated edition of the bestselling iOS guide shows you how to pull in the SDK's enormous feature set and deliver powerful, real-world apps for iPhone and iPad using modern Swift programming techniques.
Swift is the language of the future for iOS development, and this completely revised and updated book is your guide. From the community-driven changes in Swift 3 to the overhaul of iOS' Foundation framework to make it more "Swifty," iOS 10 and Xcode 8 mark an "all in" commitment to Swift, and this new edition matches that commitment.
Learn not just the syntax of the Swift language but also stylish Swift, the idiomatic uses of the language, and best practices you'll find in the wild. From there, move into developing a complete, real-world podcast client sample application-completely new for this edition-featuring Internet access, tables, navigation, and media playback, all with the most modern approaches provided by Apple's iOS 10 frameworks and tools. Go beyond code to master the practices that professional developers rely on: testing, debugging, publishing on the App Store, and managing your app over the long haul. As a bonus, you'll get a taste of cutting-edge iOS 10 features, such as the new Siri voice-command API.
Swift's time is here. Whether you're new to Swift or just catching up on iOS' latest features, iOS 10 SDK Development will help you master the language and the platform.

iOS 10 SDK Development: Creating iPhone and iPad Apps with Swift

The iOS 8 SDK changes everything. New programming language, new ways to work with other apps, new tools to do cool stuff. In a world of iPhones and iPads, it's a great time to make a fresh start developing apps for the platform. This book guides you through the state of the art of iOS development, including the radically overhauled Xcode 6 toolchain, the iOS 8 SDK, and the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Entirely rewritten to use Apple's new Swift programming language, this book will take you through the fundamentals of writing apps that are responsive, adaptive, practical, and exciting.
Whether you're starting out or starting over, iOS 8 has set developers on a new path. With a capable and practical new programming language, a wide variety of new features and frameworks, and a new spirit of openness and connectivity, it's a long way from the locked-down, webapps-only original iPhone.
iOS 8 SDK Development is a practical guide to the essentials of developing for iOS 8. You'll start building and revising a real app that's written entirely in Apple's new Swift programming language. You'll send network requests and handle the responses, build from one screen to many, adapt from the close confines of the iPhone screen to the wide expanse of the iPad, and accommodate the big iPhone 6 in between.
You'll master the fundamentals of keeping apps responsive with Grand Central Dispatch, organize your logic into View Controllers, delight users with multi-touch gestures and photo manipulation, and offer services to other apps through iOS 8 Extensions. You'll also learn the fine arts of testing, debugging, and the care and feeding of your app before submitting to the App Store--and after it's in the public's hands.
The iOS 8 SDK changes everything. Change with it. It's only getting better.
What You Need:
<ul><li>This title covers the iOS 8 SDK and Xcode 6. Readers will need a Mac with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), or later, and Xcode 6 (free from the Mac App Store).</li></ul>

iOS 8 SDK Development: Creating iPhone and iPad Apps with Swift (The Pragmatic Programmers)

There is an updated version of this book, updated for Xcode 7.3 and Swift 2.2. Search for "The Swift Apprentice Updated for Swift 2.2"

The Swift Apprentice: Beginning Programming with Swift 2

Gallagher, Alexis

Galloway, Matt

Razeware LLC

Learn How To Program with Swift 4! Swift is the easiest way to get started developing on Apple's platforms: iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. With the release of Swift 4 in 2017, the Swift language is packed with even more features and enhancements. In this book, you'll learn the basics of Swift from getting started with playgrounds to simple operations to building your own types. Everything you'll learn is platform-neutral; you'll have a firm understanding of Swift by the end of this book, and you'll be ready to move on to whichever app platform you're interested in. Who This Book Is For: This book is for complete beginners to Swift 4. No prior programming experience is necessary! Topics Covered in The Swift Apprentice <ul>
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Playground basics: Learn about the coding environment where you can quickly and easily try out your code as you learn.</li> <li>
Numbers and strings: These are the basic kinds of data in any app – learn how to use them in Swift.</li> <li>
Making Decisions: Your code doesn't always run straight through – learn how to use conditions and decide what to do.</li> <li>
Functions: Group your code together into reusable chunks to run and pass around.</li> <li>
Collection Types: Discover the many ways Swift offers to store and organize data into collections.</li> <li>
Building Your Own Types: Learn how to model elements in your app using classes, structures and enumerations.</li> <li>
Protocols &amp; Protocol-Oriented Programming: Define protocols to make your code more interface-based and compositional.</li> <li>
Error Handling: Make your code more robust and flexible by signaling and handling error conditions gracefully.</li> <li>
Functional Programming: Learn how to use Swift in a functional style and how this can make your code clearer and easier to reason about.</li> </ul>
After reading this book and completing your Swift apprenticeship by working through the included exercises and challenges, you'll be ready to take on app development on the platform of your choice!

Swift Apprentice Third Edition: Beginning Programming with Swift 4

raywenderlich.com Team

Morrow, Ben

Pupăză, Cosmin

van Impe, Steven

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