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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart 1: General Apple System Knowledge
Chapter 1: Structures and Classes
1.1 Structures And Classes
1.2 Initializing
1.3 Instance Variables
1.4 Properties
1.5 Methods
1.5 Protocols
1.6 Generics
1.7 Conclusion
Chapter 2: Swift Memory Management
2. Memory Management
2.1 App Memory Usage
2.2 Swift Memory Model
2.3 Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) Overview
2.4 ARC Object Ownership
2.5 Heap Allocation
2.6 Stack Allocation
2.7 Method Dispatch
2.8 Conclusion
Chapter 3: Persistent Storage for iOS
3. Persistence For iOS
3.1 Core Data
3.2 Deep Dive SQLite
3.3 Core Data Alternatives and Tradeoffs
3.4 Conclusion
Chapter 4: Concurrency and Parallelism
4.1 Concurrency, Parallelism, and Async Programming
4.2 Benefits Concurrent Programming
4.3 Implementing concurrent programming using threads and locks
4.4 Using GCD For Concurrency
4.5 Using NSOperation queues
4.6 Swift Structured Concurrency
4.7 Conclusion: Choosing The Right Abstraction
Chapter 5: Algorithms and Data Structures
5. Algorithms and Data Structures
5.1 Arrays
5.2 Dictionaries
5.3 Tree Traversals
5.4 Conclusion
Part 2: Common App Architecture and Design Patterns
Chapter 6: Mobile Systems Design
6. Mobile Systems Design
6.1 Approaching Systems Design At Scale
6.2 Importance Of Modularity
6.3 API Engineering For Mobile Engineers
6.4 Advanced State Management - deep links and notifications
6.5 Conclusion
Chapter 7: Mobile Systems Architecture
7. Mobile App Architecture
7.1 MVC Architecture
7.2 MVVM Architecture
7.3 Reactive Programming
7.4 VIPER
7.5 Conclusion
Chapter 8: Mobile Design Patterns
8. Mobile Design Patterns
8.1 Coordinators
8.2 Delegate Pattern
8.3 Dependency Injection
8.4 Aspect-Oriented Programming
8.5 Singletons
8.6 Conclusion
Part 3: Apps At Scale
Chapter 9: Testable Mobile Applications
9. Testability
9.1 Unit testing
9.2 E2E testing
9.3 Leveraging QA
Chapter 10: Enforcing Modularity
10. Dependency Management
10.1 Splitting to improve build time
10.2 Shared libraries
10.3 Conclusion
Chapter 11: Releasing Your Application
11. Build/Release Pipeline
11.1 Automated tests
11.2 Automated code quality
11.3 Automated releases
11.4 Building a release cycle - managing the process, handling changes, and bugs
11.5 Project timing for releases mobile is special
11.6 Forced deprecation
11.7 Analytics, Monitoring, and Alerting
11.8 Mobile On-Call
11.9 Compliance, Privacy, and Security
11.10 Third-party libraries
11.11 ePD/GDPR regulations
11.13 Conclusion
Chapter 12: App Performance
12. Performance
12.1 Establishing performance goals
12.2 App size
12.3 Adding logging
12.4 Making it part of the experimentation process
12.5 iOS Performance Tooling Review
12.6 Conclusion
Chapter 13: Developing For All Audiences13. Localization
13.1 Understanding the market
13.2 Getting content specialists involved
13.3 Automating the tedious parts
13.4 Supporting RTL mode
13.5 Supporting all languages - Tamil (tall characters) Russian (long strings)
13.6 Accessibility in iOS
13.7 Testing accessibility
13.8 Conclusion
Chapter 14: Experimentation
14. Experimentation
14.1 Understanding the value of A/B Testing
14.2 Understanding what metrics are important for the team and app-wide
14.3 Considerations for a successful experiment and shipping
14.4 Statistical considerations for evaluating experiments
14.5 Network effects
14.6 Designing and using a holdout
14.7 Considering performance
14.8 Conclusion
Chapter 15: Cross-Platform Development
15. Cross-Platform Versus Native Development
15.1 Avoid mobile release cycle
15.2 Small team iterate quickly
15.3 Less ability to take advantage of new features and high performance
15.4 App dependent
15.5 Shared core libraries in C
Chapter 16: Becoming a true team lead
16. Leading and working with large teams
16.1 Understanding engineer archetypes and roles
16.2 TL Large team - Delegate
16.3 TL large team - Uplevel others
16.4 The TL and the project lifecycle
16.5 Questioning Mindset
16.6 Communication - verbal and written
16.7 Scaling oneself
16.8 Conclusion
Part 4: Bringing Everything Together
Chapter 17: Practical Examples
17. Practical Examples
17.1 Example 1 - Building A Photo Viewing App
17.2 Example 2 - Improving A Legacy Airplane App
17.3 Example 3 - Re-building A Messaging App Implementing Encryption
17.4 Conclusion
