Learn Swift Programming

A curated list of helpful resources to learn Swift. Tutorials, Code Samples, References and more!

Beginner

Learn Swift Online Course (teamtreehouse.com)
A Swift Tour (apple.com)
Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift) (apple.com)
Developing iOS Apps Using Swift: Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3 (Best Practices)
- Part 4 (Adding Interactions)
- Part 5 (Async image loading and caching)
- Part 6 (Interaction with multiple views)
- Part 7 (Animations, Audio, and Custom Table View Cells) (jamesonquave.com)
An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Swift (teamtreehouse.com)
How To Make An iPhone App – Start Here (No programming experience required) (codewithschris.com)
Introduction to Swift - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Swift Classes: Part 1 (weheartswift.com)
Getting Started with Swift: A Brief Intro to the New Programming Language (appcoda.com)
A Beginner’s Guide to Optionals in Swift (appcoda.com)
Apple Swift Tutorial: Simple iOS Swift GUI Application (youtube.com)
Apple Swift Programming Language - Hello World Tutorial (youtube.com)
Quick unscripted tutorial on Apple swift programming language (youtube.com)
[Playlist] Swift Programming: Introduction (youtube.com)

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Intermediate

Intermediate Swift - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Lets Make a Swift App: Part 0
- Part 1 (chares.ghost.io)
Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C (apple.com)
iOS8 – How to use Objective-C Classes in Swift (ios-blog.co.uk)
Higher Order Functions: Map, Filter, Reduce and more – Part 1 (weheartswift.com)
How to Make UI Components w/ Swift (weheartswift.com)
The Basics of Optionals in Swift (learnswift.io)
Swift Optionals (medium.com)
Replicating Twitter’s bird zoom startup animation (in Swift!) (iosdevtips.co)
Basic UIView Animation with Swift Tutorial (raywenderlich.com)
Beginning Core Image in Swift (raywenderlich.com)
Enums, Pattern Matching & Generics (realm.io)
IOS Today Widget In Swift - Tutorial (blog.xebia.com)
Sprite Kit Lessons (spritekitlessons.com)
The Swift Swift Tutorial: How To Use Split View On iPad (Round 1) (makeapppie.com)
Prototyping iOS Animations in Swift: Part 1
- Animations in Swift: Part 2 (mathewsanders.com)

Advanced

Swift Language Highlights: An Objective-C Developer’s Perspective (raywenderlich.com)
Integrating Swift with Objective-C - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Swift Interoperability In Depth - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Introduction to LLDB and the Swift REPL - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Exploring Swift Memory Layout
- Part 2 (mikeash.com)

Books

Swift Programming Series (iBooks Store) - Beginners | Apple Official Guide | Free
(itunes.apple.com)
Stanford University: Developing iOS 10 Apps with Swift (iTunes U) - Beginners | Free
(itunes.apple.com)
Plymouth University: iOS Development in Swift - Beginners | Free
(itunes.apple.com)
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide - Beginners | $24+
(amazon.com)

References

Introducing Swift (apple.com)
eBook / The Swift Programming Language (apple.com)
eBook Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C (apple.com)
Official Swift Blog (apple.com)
Stack Overflow Questions (stackoverflow.com)
Github Trending Repos (github.com)
Swift Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference (raywenderlich.com)
Swift Cheat Sheet (github.io)
String Reference Guide (learnswiftonline.com)
Array Reference Guide (learnswiftonline.com)
IBM Swift Sandbox (bluemix.net)

Code Examples

Treehouse - Build a vending machine app in Swift 2 (teamtreehouse.com)
Treehouse - Build an interactive story app with Swift 2 (teamtreehouse.com)
Lister - A Productivity App Built in Swift (apple.com)
Adventure - Building a SpriteKit Game Using Swift (apple.com)
Flappy Swift - Swift implementation of Flappy Bird (github.com)
2048 Swift - A port of iOS-2048 to Apple's new Swift language. The game is present and working, but the score screen has not been implemented, nor have the (rather useless) button-based controls. (github.com)
Swift Example - A small iOS app to demonstrate the use of table views and web views using Swift, the new programming language for iOS development (github.com)
Swift Programming Language Playground - Working through the Swift Programming Language iBook (github.com)
Timesaver - Minimalist clock screensaver for OS X built with Apple's, new programming language, Swift (github.com)
Swift RSS Sample - An RSS reader app written in Swift. About 100 lines of code and written within about an hour. (github.com)
The Oakland Post - The mobile companion for The Oakland Post's news website, written entirely in Swift! (github.com)

Code Libraries

Dollar.$wift - $ is a Swift library that provides useful functional programming helper methods without extending any built in objects. It is similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore in Javascript. (dollarswift.org)
Swiftz - Functional programming in Swift (github.com)
JLToast - Toast for iOS with very simple interface. Written in Swift. (github.com)
Swifter - A Twitter framework for iOS & OS X written in Swift (github.com)
Quick - Quick is a behavior-driven development framework for Swift and Objective-C. Inspired by RSpec, Specta, and Ginkgo. (github.com)
SwiftyJSON - SwiftyJSON makes it easy to deal with JSON data in Swift. (github.com)
XCGLogger - A debug log framework for use in Swift projects. (github.com)
CGParallaxCollectionView - Porting Ole Begemann CollectionViewParallaxScrolling to Swift. It will be extended to add more features. (github.com)
Net - Net is a HttpRequest wrapper written in Swift (github.com)
Alamofire - Alamofire is an HTTP networking library written in Swift. Think of it as AFNetworking, reimagined for the conventions of this new language. (github.com)
Quick - A behavior-driven development test framework for Swift and Objective-C. (github.com)
SCLAlertView-Swift - Beautiful animated Alert View. Written in Swift (github.com)
MaterialKit - Material design components (inspired by Google Material Design) for iOS written in Swift (github.com)

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