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Hey HN!

We just finished our book on Advanced Swift, and I think you folks are the perfect crowd. There's also an online preview =). Let me know if you have any questions!

In the UK, at least, it's cheaper the buy the paperback book (£27.32) than the digital edition ($46.80; ~£32.50).

Presumably this is because VAT is charged on ebooks but not on physical books.

I've read the book (the pre-release and the final release) and it is currently the best Swift book I've read. For a book author, it is probably always difficult to decide which topics to include and which to leave out, and then how much time to spend on a given topic. Advanced Swift does really well here. They explain some of the most-used concepts in Swift in a very detailed way (like Collections, Optionals, Protocols, or Value Types) but also include a couple of advanced topics which you might run into less often, but which are usually complicated and error prone to get right (like using C libraries or String internals). Highly recommended, great book.

I'd highly recommend getting the bundle with Core Data - I read Core Data a month ago, and it was, without exaggeration, the most practically helpful programming book I have ever read. The sample project and explanations are saving me days if not weeks of learning things "the hard way". Huge props to the authors.

Just in time for Swift 2.2. Will much material need to change to be 2.2 compliant?

Does this include recently released 2.2 stuff?

Is this available on the iBookStore?

This looks great, I'm definitely buying this book. Does anyone have a good book recommendation focused on advanced iOS user interface development?

I'm starting to do programmatic layouts in code for my side projects and I think there are huge advantages to building user interfaces in code, but everyone seems to just do storyboards. Instead of waiting for Apple to release nice abstractions like UIStackView, in code you can create your own layout abstractions the way you'd like. There seems to be close to no content based around this unfortunately.

Now I only want the Swift Programming Guide itself in paper form.