Beginning iOS 16 & Swift App Development: Develop iOS Apps, Widgets with Xcode 14, SwiftUI, ARKit and more

I have found this book to be and immense help in understanding how coding works today. Like many on here I approach this book with prior knowledge of programming. This has caused some problems for me because I assume I understand the concept. What this book does for me is give me a foundation upon which to stand and learn from. I have “shot my self in the foot” numerous times with misspellings, typos, and reading too quickly through the step by step process. Learning is an investment in yourself. This book gives and shows you how to build a program in Xcode without all the fluff that make the book a doorstop and not a text book. It is in my opinion a “Quick Start Guide for Xcode.”” However, like all basic training it gives you a place from which to grow in knowledge and skill.

I have read many Swift books but this is the best one so far at taking some fairly sophisticated app designs and making the whole process understandable. For example the second app example ( a To Do List) takes you through two different view controllers, adds in core data and delivers a sophisticated app that gives you many of the tools you will need to develop your own ideas. Recommended!

As a person who has been coding for decade, but somewhat new to this story board programming, I found this book very hard to use successfully. It could be because I was not able to follow the format, or because there were errors. I think it will be good for someone who just needs an update.

I hope the author do another more extender and graphical content of his books with more details and do not skip highlights.

Mr Lim is focused on your learning the Swift language with several screenshots to match his code writing.I thought it was a superb book over all. It even includes widgets. The examples are excellent and easy to follow. If you want to learn Swift code, this is the book for you. Be sure to check out his second book Beginning Swift UI as well.

Programming since 1980.Chapters 1,2,3 were very straight forward and it appeared that it would be the swift goto book for me.However, after pouring over Chapter four numerous times and even trying to compare the code sent to me by the author to the books code, the two sets did not match well enough. It is quite possible that it needs to be updated, but I am running the same xCode and Swift versions as stated in the book. It looks like a lot of care was put into the first three chapters. Comparatively chapter four looks rushed. I'm assuming the rest of the book is the same as Chapter four. When I type in the code verbatim errors come up. This in and of itself is not necessarily unusual, however; when teaching, there should be mention of any error that shows up realtime and when it will be addressed. Even with my numerous years of coding and several google searches, something was still missing. I wasn't able to continue. I returned the book. I'm looking elsewhere for IOS/swift tutorials.

Over the years, in my spare time, I've made numerous attempts to learn iOS programming. Greg's book is probably the 1st time, in all those years and all those attempts, that actually teaches you by giving you ACTUAL projects to work on, instead of just little snippets of code, and exercises, that don't really tie anything together.Greg's book is really THAT good. What I've been doing with the projects in this book, after working thru the chapter and creating the project, I then proceed to create additional iterations of the project, adding my own tweaks in the various iterations, and PROVING to myself that I really have mastered the material and can now move on.The projects Greg throws at you, along with the various elements of iOS that you have to master for THAT project, is the main reason this book is so good and the reason I realized I truly had to repeat the projects, numerous times, to insure the material presented was 'cemented' in my head.I haven't finished the book yet but continue to work thru it in this fashion.If you REALLY want to sit down and FINALLY get enough iOS programming skills under your belt, that you ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND, to allow yourself to jump off on your own and FINALLY start creating your own iOS apps....this is the book to start with.I haven't published an app to the Apple App Store...yet....but as I work thru Greg's book I'm pretty confident I will....soon!One more thing: This is a technical skills author that ACTUALLY RESPONDS TO EMAIL REQUESTS AND QUERIES. Greg has been VERY responsive to email queries which simply makes you more comfortable moving thru the material...knowing that there really IS somebody out there that WILL answer a question or get you over some hump/problem you're having!!

The icon shown to sell this book does not depict the actual contents. When I open the book the front cover says iOS 12. This book was published in 2019 and is outdated.