The Swift programming language has transformed the world of iOS development and started a new age of modern development. Pro Design Patterns in Swift shows you how to harness the power and flexibility of Swift to apply the most important and enduring design patterns to your applications, taking your development projects to master level. This book will teach you those design patterns that have always been present at some level in your code, but may not have been recognized, acknowledged, or fully utilized. Implementation of specific pattern approaches will prove their value to any Swift developer. Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from design patterns. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. Pro Design Patterns in Swift brings design patterns to life and shows you how to bring structure and scale to your Swift code with a practical, no-nonsense approach.

This book explains a range of application design patterns and their implementation techniques using a single example app, fully implemented in five design patterns. Instead of advocating for any particular pattern, we lay out the problems all architectures are trying to address: constructing the app's components, communicating between the view and the model, and handling non-model state. We show high-level solutions to these problems and break them down to the level of implementation for five different design patterns - two commonly used and three more experimental.The common architectures are Model-View-Controller and Model-View-ViewModel + Coordinator. In addition to explaining these patterns conceptually and on the implementation level, we discuss solutions to commonly encountered problems, like massive view controllers. On the experimental side we explain View-State-Driven Model-View-Controller, ModelAdapter-ViewBinder, and The Elm Architecture. By examining these experimental patterns, we extract valuable lessons that can be applied to other patterns and to existing code bases.

Software developers need to solve various problems. Many times, these problems are the same or similar to the ones they've already encountered in other projects. Wouldn't it be great to apply the solution you've found instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again?That's precisely the reason why software design patterns exist. A design pattern is a standardized way to address a recurring problem. Relying on a proven strategy will not only save you time, but you can rest assured that it's indeed the right choice. Design patterns are the result of a long evolution process. It all started with a book published in 1994 - yes, it's that old! - called "Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software." That's a quite tedious title, so we usually refer to it as "the book by the gang of four." The gang consists of four renowned software engineers: Erich Gamma, Ralph Johnson, Richard Helm, and John Vlissides. They identified the most significant common issues that occurred in multiple projects and developed best practices to solve them. The best part: these solutions are (programming) language-agnostic. You can use the design patterns with any object-oriented programming language. Many modern programming languages and frameworks have integrated the GoF patterns. You don't have to write additional code to support say the Iterator or the Observer.Swift is no exception. Actually, it provides many advanced language features and constructs --such as type extensions, lazy initialization, and predefined protocols -- that let us adopt and integrate the design patterns into our projects easily. This book covers all these topics and provides best practices you can apply in your upcoming projects.

Build robust and scalable iOS and Mac OS X game applications About This Book Learn to use and implement the 23 Gang of Four design patterns using Swift 2 Design and architect your code for Swift application development Understand the role, generic UML design, and participants in the class diagram of the pattern by implementing them in a step-by-step approach Who This Book Is For This book is intended for competent Swift developers who want to apply enduring design patterns with Swift to structure and scale their application code. What You Will Learn Choose the appropriate pattern depending on the problem to be solved Understand the generic class diagram of each of the 23 GoF patterns and how each object participates in the pattern Use Swift to implement these patterns even though the language doesn't provide all of the object-oriented programming concepts such as abstract class, interface, and so on Architect your software to avoid the overuse of memory, time spent on calculations, or high network traffic Find the best way to organize your code to make it more secure from the outside world Prepare your code to make it more flexible when the consumer changes or the third-party component hidden code changes Structure your code to change the algorithm to apply at runtime Deliver Flyweight responsibility to your objects In Detail Swift is a multi-paradigm language. It has expressive features familiar to those used to work with modern functional languages, while also keeping the object-oriented features of Objective-C. It remains compatible with Apple's legacy codes and frameworks. A design pattern systematically names, motivates, and explains a general design that addresses a recurring design problem in object-oriented systems. It describes the problem, the solution, when to apply the solution, and its consequences. It also gives implementation hints and examples. Knowledge about design patterns is also one of the best ways to make you different compared to other low-level developers. This book shows you how to use Swift 2 to learn about 23 Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns, and is organized into three categories. The book will present you the five creational patterns, followed by the seven structural patterns, and finishing with the 11 behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. Each chapter will introduce the pattern by defining its role, which common problems the pattern should be used for, its generic UML representation, how each objects presented in the class diagram participate in the pattern, and what the role of each of these objects is. The book then presents you with a concrete case as an illustration that will be used to implement the pattern using Swift. Style and approach A step-by-step tutorial completed with screenshots and code highlights wherever necessary. Each chapter discusses one or more patterns with its definitions and a simple-to-follow illustration case using a playground or XCText project to implement it with Swift.

Learn iOS Design Patterns! Design patterns are reusable solutions to common development problems. They aren't project specific, so you can adapt and use them in countless apps. By learning design patterns, you'll become a better developer, save time and work less. Design Patterns by Tutorials is here to help! This book is the easiest and fastest way to get hands-on experience with the iOS design patterns you need to know. Who This Book Is For Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced iOS developer, this book is for you. You can either read this book from cover to cover, or skip around to just the patterns you want to learn. Topics Covered in Design Patterns by Tutorials Getting Started: You'll first learn about how design patterns work and how they can help you build better, cleaner apps. Fundamental Patterns: You'll progress onto fundamental design patterns, such as MVC, Delegation, and Strategy, which you're likely to use on every iOS app. Intermediate Patterns: You'll then learn about intermediate design patterns, such as MVVM, Factory, and Adapter, which are less common than fundamental patterns but still very useful for most apps. You'll finish off by learning about advanced design patterns, including Flyweight, Mediator and Command. You likely won't use these on every app, but they may be just what you need to solve a difficult problem. One thing you can count on: after reading this book, you'll be well-prepared to use design patterns in your own apps!

From learning about the most sought-after design patterns to a comprehensive coverage of architectural patterns and code testing, this book is all you need to write clean, reusable code Key Features Write clean, reusable and maintainable code, and make the most of the latest Swift version. Analyze case studies of some of the popular open source projects and give your workflow a huge boost Choose patterns such as MVP, MVC, and MVVM depending on the application being built Book Description Swift keeps gaining traction not only amongst Apple developers but also as a server-side language. This book demonstrates how to apply design patterns and best practices in real-life situations, whether that's for new or already existing projects. You'll begin with a quick refresher on Swift, the compiler, the standard library, and the foundation, followed by the Cocoa design patterns - the ones at the core of many cocoa libraries - to follow up with the creational, structural, and behavioral patterns as defined by the GoF. You'll get acquainted with application architecture, as well as the most popular architectural design patterns, such as MVC and MVVM, and learn to use them in the context of Swift. In addition, you'll walk through dependency injection and functional reactive programming. Special emphasis will be given to techniques to handle concurrency, including callbacks, futures and promises, and reactive programming. These techniques will help you adopt a test-driven approach to your workflow in order to use Swift Package Manager and integrate the framework into the original code base, along with Unit and UI testing. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build applications that are scalable, faster, and easier to maintain. What you will learn Work efficiently with Foundation and Swift Standard library Understand the most critical GoF patterns and use them efficiently Use Swift 4.2 and its unique capabilities (and limitations) to implement and improve GoF patterns Improve your application architecture and optimize for maintainability and performance Write efficient and clean concurrent programs using futures and promises, or reactive programming techniques Use Swift Package Manager to refactor your program into reusable components Leverage testing and other techniques for writing robust code Who this book is for This book is for intermediate developers who want to apply design patterns with Swift to structure and scale their applications. You are expected to have basic knowledge of iOS and Swift.

“Next time some kid shows up at my door asking for a code review, this is the book that I am going to throw at him.” –Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, Inc., and author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X Unlocking the Secrets of Cocoa and Its Object-Oriented Frameworks Mac and iPhone developers are often overwhelmed by the breadth and sophistication of the Cocoa frameworks. Although Cocoa is indeed huge, once you understand the object-oriented patterns it uses, you’ll find it remarkably elegant, consistent, and simple. Cocoa Design Patterns begins with the mother of all patterns: the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, which is central to all Mac and iPhone development. Encouraged, and in some cases enforced by Apple’s tools, it’s important to have a firm grasp of MVC right from the start. The book’s midsection is a catalog of the essential design patterns you’ll encounter in Cocoa, including Fundamental patterns, such as enumerators, accessors, and two-stage creation Patterns that empower, such as singleton, delegates, and the responder chain Patterns that hide complexity, including bundles, class clusters, proxies and forwarding, and controllers And that’s not all of them! Cocoa Design Patterns painstakingly isolates 28 design patterns, accompanied with real-world examples and sample code you can apply to your applications today. The book wraps up with coverage of Core Data models, AppKit views, and a chapter on Bindings and Controllers. Cocoa Design Patterns clearly defines the problems each pattern solves with a foundation in Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks and can be used by any Mac or iPhone developer.