Want to learn Swift, the powerful programming language for iOS and macOS? Check out these tutorials, and improve your Swift skills starting right now!
Working with Alamofire in Swift
Alamofire is an elegant networking library written in Swift. You use it to make HTTP requests in your iOS apps. In this tutorial, we're going to discuss how you can use Alamofire for HTTP networking!
The Ultimate Guide to Operators in Swift
Operators in Swift are tiny symbols that produce a result. In this tutorial, we're diving deep into Swift's operators, including precedence and associativity, and even write our own custom operators.
The Nil-Coalescing ?? and Ternary Conditional :? Operators in Swift
In this tutorial, we're going to discuss how you can use the nil-coalescing operator and the ternary conditional operator in Swift. They're interesting bits of syntactic sugar, and they can help you write more concise, readable code. Let's get started!
Subscript Syntax in Swift Explained
You use a subscript in Swift to quickly access the member elements of collections. It's a powerful feature of the Swift Programming Language, because the syntax for subscripts is super concise. Let's find out how it works!
Play With Code: Binary Search in Swift
Binary search is a simple algorithm that lets you search an array for a specific value. In this tutorial, we're going to code a binary search algorithm from scratch in Swift. It's good practice, and you'll learn some interesting tidbits about Swift along the way!
Error Handling with Try and Catch in Swift
You use 'do', 'try', 'catch' and 'throw' to handle errors and exceptions in Swift. Error handling gives you greater control over unexpected scenarios that might occur in your code. Let's find out how that works!
Scope and Context Explained in Swift
The concept of scope states that, if you've declared a variable or function in one "place" of your code, you cannot use it elsewhere. It's a subtle rule in programming. But that's not all there is to it. Let's find out how scope works in Swift!
Opaque Types and 'some' in Swift
Opaque types are an important feature of Swift. With the "some" keyword, which denotes an opaque type, you can "hide" the concrete return type of a computed property or function. Let's find out how that works!
Escaping Closures in Swift Explained
A closure is said to "escape" a function when it's called after that function returns. In Swift, closures are non-escaping by default. What are escaping closures, anyway? And what do you use @escaping for? Let's find out!
Guard Statement Explained in Swift
The guard statement in Swift helps you return your functions early, if a condition isn't met. In this tutorial we'll discuss what "guard" is, and how you can use it in practical iOS development. Let's get started!
Inheritance and Subclassing Explained in Swift
With subclassing, a class can inherit functions and properties from another class. That allows you to reuse your code, which is a good thing. In this tutorial, we'll discuss how you can use subclassing and inheritance in Swift.
Properties in Swift Explained
You use properties in Swift to tack some data onto an object, like 'cookie.flavor = "Chocolate Chip"'. Properties in Swift pack quite a punch! In this tutorial, we're going to discuss stored/computed properties, getters and setters, and property observers.
Classes in Swift Explained
Classes are one of the most fundamental building blocks of Swift code. In this tutorial, we're going to discuss how classes work, what instances are, how inheritance works, and much more.
How To: Using Notification Center In Swift
Swift's NotificationCenter is super useful for sending data from one part of your app to another. But how does it work? When do you use it? You'll find out in this tutorial, including a ton of code examples, use cases, and helpful advice. Let's get started!
Struct vs. Class in Swift Explained
What's the difference between classes vs. structs? They're so alike! It's best to use structs by default, and classes in specific scenarios – but when? Let's find out!
Working with Codable and JSON in Swift
Every webservice uses JSON nowadays. You can use the Codable protocol to encode and decode data, like JSON, to Swift objects. In this tutorial you learn how to map Swift objects to JSON with the Codable protocol. Let's get started!
Optionals in Swift: The Ultimate Guide
Do you find Swift's optionals confusing? In this article, I'll give you a complete tour of optionals in Swift. We'll find out what optionals are, why they're useful, and how you can work with them to make your code safer, bug-free and easier to maintain.
Working with Recursive Algorithms in Swift
A recursive function is a function that calls itself. It's an intriguing approach to solve specific coding challenges. In this article, you'll learn how to work with recursion in Swift.
Learn Swift Programming The Simple Way
Swift is an easy to learn programming language for iOS, macOS, and more. Learning how to code Swift is simple, a lot of fun, and you can build awesome apps with it! In this article, we'll discuss simple approaches to learn Swift coding.
Conway's Game of Life in Swift
Conway's Game of Life is a fun simulation game, and we're going to code it in Swift! Based on 3 simple rules, we'll see which of the pixels makes it to the next generation. It's great coding practice, perfect for a Sunday afternoon.
The @State Property Wrapper in SwiftUI Explained
With @State, you tell SwiftUI that a view is now dependent on some state. If the state changes, so should the User Interface. It's a core principle of SwiftUI: data drives the UI. But how does that work?
How to Use "where" in Swift
You use the 'where' keyword to filter things in Swift. Loop over all items 'where x = true', for example. It's simple and powerful! In this tutorial, we'll discuss the various scenarios in which you can use 'where' in Swift.
Fun with print() in Swift
You use print() in Swift to print text to the Console. It's super useful for finding out what's going on in your code. In this tutorial, we'll discuss how you can customize print() to code more productively.
How To Fix Strong Reference Cycles in Swift
A strong reference cycle causes a memory leak in your iOS app, and that's a bad user experience. In this tutorial, we'll discuss what causes strong reference cycles and how you can resolve them.
Weak vs. Strong References in Swift
Creating a strong reference to an instance in Swift, means that the instance is kept in the iPhone's memory until you're done with it. You can also create weak references. Both are part of the memory management mechanism called ARC. In this tutorial, we'll discuss how weak and strong references work on iOS with Swift.
