Swift 4 Cookbook: The Ultimate Collection of iOS Quick Fixes

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Extra Awesome Resources to Help you on your SwiftUI / Swift journey

Lecture 1: Extra Awesome Resources to Help you on your SwiftUI / Swift journey

Chapter 2: Introduction – How to use the Cookbook

Lecture 1: Introduction – How to use the Cookbook

Lecture 2: To help you further on your SwiftUI Journey

Chapter 3: Arrays

Lecture 1: How do you create multi-dimensional arrays?

Lecture 2: How to count objects in a set using NSCountedSet

Lecture 3: How to enumerate items in an array

Lecture 4: How to find an item in an array using indexOf()

Lecture 5: How to join an array of strings into a single string

Lecture 6: How to loop through items in an array

Lecture 7: How to loop through an array in reverse

Lecture 8: How to shuffle an array in iOS 8 and below

Lecture 9: How to shuffle an array using GameplayKit

Lecture 10: How to sort an array using sort()

Lecture 11: How to tell if an array contains an object

Chapter 4: CALayer

Lecture 1: How to add a border outline color to a UIView

Lecture 2: How to create keyFrame animations using CAKeyFrameAnimation

Lecture 3: How to draw color gradients using CAGradientLayer

Lecture 4: How to draw shapes using CAShapeLayer

Lecture 5: How to emit particles using CAEmitterLayer

Lecture 6: How to round the corners of a UIView

Chapter 5: Core Graphics

Lecture 1: How to calculate the distance between two CGPoints

Lecture 2: How to calculate the Manhattan distance between two CGPoints

Lecture 3: How to compare two CGRects with equalTo()

Lecture 4: How to draw a circle using Core Graphics: addEllipse(in:)

Lecture 5: How to draw a square using Core Graphics – addRect()

Lecture 6: How to draw a text string using Core Graphics

Lecture 7: How to draw lines in Core Graphics – move(to) and addLine(to)

Lecture 8: How to find a scale from a CGAffineTransform

Lecture 9: How to find the rotation from a CGAffineTransform

Lecture 10: How to find the translation from a CGAffineTransform

Lecture 11: How to render a PDF to an image

Lecture 12: How to use Core Graphics blend modes to draw a UIImage differently

Chapter 6: Games

Lecture 1: How to add physics to an SKSpriteNode

Lecture 2: How to add pixel-perfect physics to an SKSpriteNode

Lecture 3: How to change SKScene with a transition – presentScene()

Lecture 4: How to color an SKSpriteNode using colorBlendFactor

Lecture 5: How to create 3D audio sound using SKAudioNode

Lecture 6: How to create a SpriteKit texture atlas in Xcode

Lecture 7: How to create shapes using SKShapeNode

Lecture 8: How to emit particles using SKEmitterNode

Lecture 9: How to find a touch's location in a node using location(in-)

Lecture 10: How to generate a random number with GKRandomSource

Lecture 11: How to roll a dice using GameplayKit and GKRandomDistribution

Lecture 12: How to run SKActions in a group

Lecture 13: How to run SKActions in a sequence

Lecture 14: How to stop an SKPhysicsBody responding to physics using its dynamic property

Lecture 15: How to write text using SKLabelNode

Chapter 7: Language

Lecture 1: Fixing "Ambiguous reference to member when using ceil or round"

Lecture 2: Fixing "Class ViewController has no initializers"

Lecture 3: How to check for valid method input using the guard keyword

Lecture 4: How to check the Swift version at compile time

Lecture 5: How to compare two tuples for equality

Lecture 6: How to convert a float to a CGFloat

Lecture 7: How to convert a float to an int

Lecture 8: How to convert a string to a double

Lecture 9: How to convert a string to a float

Lecture 10: How to convert a string to an int

Lecture 11: How to convert a string to an NSString

Lecture 12: How to convert an int to a float

Lecture 13: How to convert an int to a string

Lecture 14: How to convert an NSRange to a Swift string index

Lecture 15: How to create an Objective-C bridging header to use code in Swift

Lecture 16: How to create multi line stirng literals

Lecture 17: How to delay execution of code using the defer keyword

Lecture 18: How to find the maximum of three numbers

Lecture 19: How to find the maximum of two numbers

Lecture 20: How to find the minimum of three numbers

Lecture 21: How to find the minimum of two numbers

Lecture 22: How to fix “argument of #selector refers to instance method that is not exposed

Lecture 23: How to force your program to crash with assert()

Lecture 24: How to install a beta version of Swift

Lecture 25: How to print debug text in Swift

Lecture 26: How to unwrap an optional in Swift

Lecture 27: How to use Codable to load and save custom data types

Lecture 28: How to use compiler directives to detect the iOS simulator

Lecture 29: How to use the try/catch in Swift to handle exceptions

Lecture 30: How to use #available to check for API availability

Lecture 31: Tips for android developers switching to Swift

Lecture 32: Using stride() to loop over a range of numbers

Lecture 33: What are lazy variables?

Lecture 34: What are property observers?

Lecture 35: What are the changes in Swift 1.2

Lecture 36: What are the changes in Swift 2.0

Lecture 37: What are the changes in Swift 2.2

Lecture 38: What are the changes in Swift 3.0

Lecture 39: What does an exclamation mark mean?

Lecture 40: What does override mean?

Lecture 41: What does unowned mean?

Lecture 42: What does weak mean?

Lecture 43: What is a CGFloat?

Lecture 44: What is a closure?

Lecture 45: What is a delegate in iOS?

Lecture 46: What is a dictionary?