Swift Development–list of Resources you must Bookmark

Ever since the introduction of iOS, there is iOS development fever across the globe. Many IOS developers & companies is making fortunate out of it. By using objective-c and Apple homebrew XCode SDK, there is more than 1 million apps in AppStore now! Apple didn ' t stop there, they is going to push it to another level by introducing a new high level programming language– Swift. Objective-c without the baggage of C is what Craig Federighi described it during the conference.

Swift is designed to be fast, modern, safe and interactive. Even though it is a-a high-level programming-language, its speed was much more faster than objective-c. You can mix it with objective-c and C altogether in a project too (not a good idea though!).

Honestly, I was pretty excited about Swift. I wanted to dive in IOS development, but as a web developer for half of my life, it's ' t easy for me to get into progra Mming with low-level language. So, this announcement is actually quite a exciting news to me. I started to the find resources about it and even started to learn how to use XCode. I decided to start from basic of objective-c so I ' ll know the differences. It was a painful process. Objective-c have been serving Apple well for 20+ years, and I must say, it's not a friendly language at all.

As a PHP developer, I found Objective-c is a beast, very steep learning curve and a lot of weird and repetitive coding. To cut it short, it's indeed a low-level language, too low to my liking. My motive to learn the basic of objective-c are to know the native solution first before moving on to high level. Just like how we start by learning Javascript first before moving in to JQuery.

Swift does a lot behind the scene to eliminate all those inconveniences and tedious practives of objective-c. As a result of that, objective-c codes is being simplified into shorter code and easier to understand. Take the following code illustrated during the conference as example:

Objective-c

if (mydelegate! = nil) {if ([MyDelegate respondstoselector: @selector (scrollviewdidscroll:)]) {[MyDelegate Scrollviewdidscroll:myscrollview];}}

Swift

MyDelegate?. Scrollviewdidscroll? (Myscrollview)

Variable assignment is almost the same with Javascript except they eliminate the needs of semicolon. Comparing to Objective-c, it's just painful to write. Here is the declaration of String type variable.

Objective-c

NSString *mystring = @ "This is my string.";

Swift

var myString = "This is my string."

Is you getting excited yet? During the My own and learning, I found a good collection of useful resources about Swift. If you started to learn it just like I did, this list would be very handy. But first of all, you need the SDK. Swift is a available in XCode 6 Beta which only available for those with Apple Developer account, and if you search ARO und *ahem*, you'll able to download it elsewhere.

Here you go, below are a list of resources, you'll get written tutorials, video tutorials, references, sample codes and S Wift community. Drop me a commnet if you discovered something useful. enjoy!

Introduction

• A Swift Tour by Apple. Download from IBook Swift programming language or PDF.
• An Absolute Beginners guide-to-Swift by Teamtreehouse
• A programmers view of apples new Swift language by Richard Byrne Reilly
• Swift is great should still know objective-c first by Jon Friskics
• Swift–learn Apple ' s New programming Language by Examples by Udemy
• Developing iOS8 apps using Swift–create a Todo application by Shiva Narrthine

Tutorial Series #1

A Simple and short tutorial created by Fábio Rocha.

• Swift Tutorial for Beginners Part 1
• Swift Tutorial for Beginners Part 2

Tutorial Series #2

A comprehensive Swift Tutorial created by James Quave. This 6 parts tutorials focus on created IOS app. You'll learn from basic to advanced techniques such as Web API request, parsing JSON, Table View, Async image loading &A mp caching, interaction with multiple views and best practices.

• Hello World
• Making a Web API request and parsing the JSON
• Some best practices using protocols and Delegates
• Adding an interactive Table View
• Async Image Loading and caching
• Developing IOS 8 Apps Using Swift part 6–interaction with multiple views

Tutorial Series #3

This tutorial would walk you through the creation of a geolocation based alarm app for travelers. The concept is simple:users create a new alarm by selecting both a geographic region and music item from their library. When the phone detects itself crossing the region boundary of a alarm (enter or exit) the relevant music plays.

• Let's make a Swift app
• Lets make a Swift app part 1

Tutorial Series #4

We Heart Swift is a new website dedicated for Swift programming. They is going to be covering cool stuff they found.

• How do a simple table view with IOS8 and Swift
• Swift Classes–part 1
• Swift Classes–part 2
• Swift around–simple TableView with a custom cell type
• Make awesome UI iOS8 using Swift XCode 6

Video Tutorials

Sample Code

Sometimes, the quickest-on-the-pick up a language are to learn by sample. Here we have a list of Swift applications so you can download and study it.

• Flappyswift–code
• swiftexample–table views and Web views demostrations
• Swift Rss–an RSS reader app written in Swift. About lines of code and written within on an hour. Proved Swift is a good programming language
• Minimalistic Swift HTTP request agent for IOS and OS X
• Hackernews Reader IOS App
• Swift–game of Life–conway ' s Game of life written in Swift with SpriteKit
• Swiftnote–simple note taking app with today widget and ICloud syncing.
• Uiimageview–betterface swift–a Uiimageview extension to let the picture-cutting with faces showing better
• Uicatalog:creating and customizing UIKit Controls in Swift–ios Developer Library
• Adventure:building a SpriteKit Game Using swift–ios Developer Library
• gesturerecognizers:using Standard Uigesturerecognizers–ios Developer Library
• Lister:a Productivity App Built in Swift–ios Developer Library

Quick References

• Swift Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference
• Swift Cheat Sheet by KPKP
• String Reference Guide for Swift
• Array Reference Guide for Swift
• Swift Cheat Sheet by Grant
• Swift Cheat Sheet

Swift Community

• Google + Swift Community
• Github Swift Trending repositories
• StackOverflow Swift Language
• Reddit IOS Swift
• V2ex–in Mandarin Language
• Swiftchina–in Mandarin Language
• Swift china–in Mandarin Language

Swift Development–list of Resources you must Bookmark