Programming iOS 10

The book just arrived today and it's already been quite useful in providing some insight on a problem I was researching. The author covers a wide range of topics (see TOC) and then goes into some really good depth on important facets of each topic. Quite often, I'll be in the middle of building an app and need just a little extra detail to finish a given piece. At that point, I usually go online and search until I find the answer. This books has those kinds of details, so I can just look things up instead of searching around until I find something useful. Also, this book is a descriptive reference of important topics and not really a tutorial. By that, I mean the author introduces topics and then discusses details rather than taking a "let me walk you through each step of creating an app" approach that more introductory books take. Both are very useful, but this is not that type of book. The author provides good descriptions and lots of code snippets, which is exactly what you need when you get stuck partway through solving a problem. In addition to all the code in the book, the author has posted lots of projects on GitHub, so you can download them to see how things fit together. I am quite pleased with the material that I've read so far and consider it a great investment -- it would be cheap at twice the price (just don't tell O'Reilly ;) ...

I've been programming iOS sporadically ever since one could with Xcode. I've even migrated some of my older stuff from Objective C to Swift. However, I'm always learning more and this book is an excellent source of details and cautions that touch a good chunk of core iOS. The presentation is clear, as are the code examples. This book will not teach you the beginnings of programming in Swift, for which I am grateful. Instead, it gives you plenty of information to work with to make your apps run well, and to keep you from making perhaps non-obvious mistakes along the way.

This is a painful book to read. It's just an endless stream of unorganized facts that flow out as fast as they flow in. This book is in serious need of an editor that can help the author assemble the facts around some cohesive themes. If I had to guess how it was written, I would say the author recorded himself reciting random iOS facts as they popped into his head, then he hired someone to transcribe the recording. Of course I'm being facetious, but it's really like that. Maybe that's why the book is 2 inches thick - he didn't want to omit anything! Can't recommend it.

This book is certainly worth to have. I bought it when could not find the reliable answer on my question neither in Apple Documentation nor in Internet. And I do found it in this book. This book does not go in the details, which you can easily find in the Apple guides and API reference probably because otherwise the book would be too large. Instead it gives the details you often need when you are trying to do something not standard and beyond the basic. Probably due to his experience coding, the Author exactly knows what is often needed but difficult to find.

If you work on any sort of Apple Swift project, you will eventually run into an issue that you can’t resolve simply looking at Apple fine online documentation.You can spend hours and hours searching the internet and looking at all sorts of code. Some on point. Some not.Even code that might help may be in Objective-C or earlier versions of Swift.Many times, I’ve found the solution in this volume. The latest edition of this reference is the size of a telephone book. But you can save hours of work and massive amounts of frustration by starting your hunt here.You know the code will be up-to-date and as clean and concise as possible. It will pass any peer review.In the old days, you would have said “steal this book” but that’s a little hard with a digital marketplace. ☺ Pull out your credit card and BUY THIS BOOK. It’s well worth the money.

Absolutely not the best writing I've encountered. Not even close. It's very dry. He seems to combine sentences with semicolons frequently; I find that very frustrating. (That's just an example of what I'm talking about). Also, the examples can be hard to follow. He provides a Github repo, but it's a mess. There are all these "projects" in there with folder names like "bk2ch06p304customPresentedAnimation2". While the page number is apparently indicated in the folder name, they don't match up with anything in the book, so it's useless at best. Why not just have a separate repo just for this book, and separate folders for each chapter, with sensible names for each example?Another thing - the examples don't always match up with what you see in the book. So you have sometimes have to dig around and try to figure out whether an example in the repo is related to what you're reading about. I find that very frustrating.Definitely not the best book out there, but it does contain some good info. Might be worth reading if you have a lot of stamina and patience.

Poor explanations

Unless you already know the topics, say 90%, this book give no help, but frustration. The author appears to have worst writing skills, which is obvious from comparison with other books in the area.

Neuburg is not for beginners. But this book is thorough. He's one of my favourite tech book writers. My only complaint is that some of his examples could be clearer. For instance what he makes a view and RGB color this isn't all that helpful when you are reading the code since you can't keep track of what color he's talking about. Also, variable names in the code examples tend to be a bit too terse to be helpful. I highly recommend Neuburg books for serious iOS developers. It's not a book for beginners. He does have a book on language fundamentals which beginners might be able to work through with some patience.

Un buon libro, scritto abbastanza bene, ma purtroppo molti argomenti sono trattati in modo estremamente superficiale, giusto per dire che ci sono. La parte di UI è trattata abbastanza bene (ma c'è poco sull'animazione), mentre altri argomenti come networking e Core Data sono giusto citati senza alcun approfondimento, praticamente inutile in questo senso. Come libra introduttivo può andar bene, ma non è indirizzato a programmatori molto esperti, nonostante si scriva il contrario.

I've been buying this book nearly every year since iOS 4. Very complete, has answers to nearly all my questions. Very logically explained so you can understand what you're doing! Wish there were an Objective-C version though.