Singh - Reactive programming with Swift 4 build asynchronous reactive applications with easy-to-maintain and clean code using RxSwift and Xcode 9

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Navdeep Singh is a result-oriented software developer and research professional with more than 7 years of experience in both development and research positions. He strives to create software with the user in mind, creating applications with a usable and intuitive user interface experience. Navdeep spends most of his time learning about the latest trends in technology, writing blogs, playing cricket, or practicing classical Hindustani music.

Kevin Munc (@muncman) is a 20-year programming veteran with wide experience, from mainframes to mobile. Along the way, he's reviewed books on Objective-C, watchOS, UIAutomation, Sprite Kit, JavaFX, and Vim.

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As a platform, iOS offers numerous APIs to write asynchronous code and, many a times, this choice becomes hard to manage and a single code base ends up comprising multiple Asynchronous API usages, for example, closures for small Async tasks, delegation for background tasks, notification center for event-based tasks, and such. Managing and modifying such a code base might become a headache even if it is written in the best way possible, and the problem becomes more severe if a big team is involved with a single code base. RxSwift brings in uniformity so that different types of requirements (mentioned earlier) are handled with RxSwift code and hence you, as a developer, get more control over the processes and different module interactions within the app.

The main mission of this book is to give you a platform to catapult your skills to be on par with the best RxSwift developers out there. Follow the content in the book as per the schedule, and rest assured that you will achieve the mission.

This book is for iOS developers who have intermediate knowledge of Swift development for IOS and want to take their skill set to the next level. RxSwift offers more control over asynchronous code in your iOS environment, and, as a seasoned developer, even a slight advantage to the way asynchronous code is written is always welcome. This book will challenge the way you have been thinking about your apps' logic and guide you along the way as you turn the tables and start thinking in a more declarative way as compared to the traditional imperative way. In short, you will learn how to think in what to do terminology as compared to how to do.

For those who are eager to become a Swift Ninja, this book aims to work in a slightly unique mannerwe will dive straight into the code, and as we build on the demo applications, we will explain the concepts on the fly, as they say! Development is all about practice, and this book abides by that rule right from the word go.

, Migrating from Swift 3 to Swift 4, teaches whats new in Swift 4 and how you can transition your code from Swift 3 to Swift 4. Unlike the previous Swift releases, this time the conversion is more seamless, and you will see this in practice with the help of an example.