iOS 17 Programming for Beginners: Unlock the world of iOS development with Swift 5.9, Xcode 15, and iOS 17 – your path to App Store success

I'm almost done with the book, 2 chapters left, and I learned how to write an IOS app both ways, one using the designer interface and the other in pure code. Without this book, I would still be clueless and would have never got the kick start that I needed. The book is very hard to follow, and writing out the code examples became more and more difficult as I progressed through the book, to the point where my code didn't match up in certain spots and I had to cheat and use the GitHub code to fix my code.Without the book, I would have never learned the rules to IOS, the nomenclature of the parts or components, and the details in what is possible with storing data on a phone, or using a cloud data source. For me, I spent 5 Sundays with the book, and it would take me about 7 Sundays to complete the lessons. There are a couple of typos in the book; mistakes, and some parts are misleading in the Map section.So when I started my ambition to write a phone app, being nudged by my friends, I was going to order about 3 books, one being a Cookbook, but refrained and just ordered this one, which was the right choice after all.I'm not about to try another book to learn, and spend more time learning using this method, so I can't comment on other books on this subject, for I'm going straight to code and will start building my app next week.

Love this book. It's a thick one and I highly recommend it. I started out with next to no knowledge of programming. I bought a book that showed me how to make a few quick apps but it was this book that went into extended detail to explain concepts like data types. I could say more but long reviews are annoying. I'm a beginner who gained a lot of confidence to keep at it because of this book. That's all you really need to know.

I am teaching myself IOS Programming, Swift, and Swift UI. I have been studying for about a year now. This book covers just about everything you will need to know to get started in coding for IOS. It has all of the latest code updates reflecting Apple's latest Swift releast of 5.9 (at the time of writing). This includes a section on SwiftData which is the new version of CoreData. The beginning section on the basics of the Swift Language is fantastic, easy to read and a lot of color diagrams. My only complaint with the book is that it spends a lot of time on the older UIKit concepts and not a lot on Apple's newer framework of SwiftUI. With that said, there is nothing wrong with learning UIKit as there are a lot of companies that ONLY program UIKit...Most professional coders will need to know both UIKit and SwiftUI. Both work with IOS and at some point you should be at least familiar with UIKit. SwiftUI does not do everything and many times you still need UIKit. If this book had more data on SwiftUI I would of been thrilled with it and given it 5 stars instead of 4. Note, that the title includes the word "Beginning". Not one book can cover every aspect of the IOS Programming knowledge base. This is indeed a good book to begin with and there are a lot of other books, online courses as well as Apple's own site and documentation that you can augment your knowledge with. I hope this review helps you as you shop for books.

It's a detailed IOS programming book, It has all that you need to start with iOS. Nevertheless, I would recommend considering learning on YouTube, it's for free and it's not necessary to buy a book to learn the basics, you can use chat GPT for the basic learning process too.Once you get a better understanding of iOS or coding in general invest in one course or book that complements what you have learned so far.I have 10 years of experience on iOS and I learned using only free resources because I didn't have any money at that time (junior developer), but if you can afford this book is a good option. Just remember that all in it will be deprecated in less than 6 months, the iOS development is changing super fast.

Great instruction and set-by-step processes but beware the YouTube demos and online code help is no longer available.

This book provides an excellent foundation for learning iOS development, taking the reader from all the things needed to get started (Xcode, a developer account, learning Swift) all the way through to finally getting an app tested and then submitted to and accepted by the App Store. The technical emphasis is on UIKit with only a single chapter each devoted to SwiftData and SwiftUI, but for those with the goal of getting a job as an iOS developer or QA engineer, that's appropriate, because there is a huge body of Core Data and Firebase and UIKit code out there. The examples and exercises and pedagogy are well thought out, and the layering of skills is nicely done. There's even a great chapter on visionOS, so the reader will have a solid understanding of modern iOS frameworks. While I would have liked to have seen more mention of version control and unit testing, those are generally not beginner topics, and the book takes no unnecessary detours. Overall, this is one of the best books on iOS development I've come across, and I look forward to more from Ahmad Sahar.