All Hacking with Swift books now updated for Swift 4
Paul Hudson September 20th 2017 @twostraws
With yesterday's release of Xcode 9, all 11 books in the Hacking with Swift series have been updated for Swift 4. These updates are available free of charge thanks to the Hacking with Swift lifetime update policy, which guarantees you Swift updates for the life of each book.
If you bought through Gumroad: The book updates are available immediately using your original email receipt. Look for the product download link from Gumroad, and that should take you straight to the updated editions.
If you bought through iBooks: The updates have been submitted to Apple for review and will hopefully be live in the next few days.
If you're keen to learn more, here are links to each of the books:
- Hacking with Swift
- Pro Swift
- Practical iOS 11
- Practical iOS 10
- Swift Coding Challenges
- Hacking with macOS
- Hacking with watchOS
- Hacking with tvOS
- Server-Side Swift
- Objective-C for Swift Developers
- Beyond Code
At the same time as updating the books for Swift 4 some other enhancements were added, including:
- Hacking with Swift now explains how to adopt the large title bars introduced in iOS 11, how to use the safe area and hide the home indicator for iPhone X, and how to use the new Swift 4 Codable protocol to load and save data.
- Pro Swift has been expanded to cover
fatalError(),Never, and Swift 4 dictionary improvements. - Hacking with watchOS now teaches how to enable auto rotation and Water Lock in your apps.
As well as the books being refreshed, the Swift Test has been updated for Swift 4, and the Swift Knowledge Base has been updated for Swift 4 and expanded with new articles relating to iOS 11 and iPhone X. The new articles are:
- How to fix “argument of #selector refers to instance method that is not exposed to Objective-C”
- How to use Codable to load and save custom data types
- How to create multi-line string literals
- How to enable large titles in your navigation bar
- How to hide the home indicator on iPhone X
- How to add custom spacing to UIStackView items
- How to used a named UIColor in code and Interface Builder
- How to detect the dominant language of a text string
About the author
Paul Hudson is the creator of Hacking with Swift, the most comprehensive series of Swift books in the world. He's also the editor of Swift Developer News, the maintainer of the Swift Knowledge Base, and Mario Kart world champion. OK, so that last part isn't true. If you're curious you can learn more here.
