The 10 Best Swift Books For Learning iOS Programming

Swift is a multi-paradigm programming language. The OS of
the great apple products like iOS,macOS, iPad, and all other
apple-related OS is developed by using this language. So, if you
are interested in learning the language of iOS, then you have to
learn Swift. But, getting the proper Swift programming book is
difficult, even you will be tired of finding them on the Internet
as very few are available. So, we are providing you with a handful
of Swift programming language books to ease your study.

Swift Books For Learning iOS
Programming

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In this collection of books, we will show you some of the
best books written on Swift. These swift programming learning books
are wealthy in information and rich in teaching. Almost all the
books will teach you the basic and essential teaching of Swift.
Some of the books also contain advanced level studies by which you
can develop apps and even games using teaching and your
innovations. We hope you will soon become a pro after getting the
touch of these books.

1. Beginning Swift Programming

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As a newbie to Swift programming, Beginning Swift
Programming is a good choice. There is a nice and meaningful
introduction to the language at the beginning of the book. You can
come to know about the basics of different things like Basic
Operation. The book also highlights the flow of control and
looping. There is a good ending to the book where it has kept a
session to exercise your learning with answers to
those.    

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Swift
• Data Types
• Strings and Characteristics
• Basic Operators
• Functions 
• Collections
• Control Flow and Looping
• Structures and Classes
• Inheritance
• Closure
• Protocols and Delegates
• Genetics 
• Exercise Answers

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2. Beginning Swift

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Beginning Swift is a great swift book where different
portions are categorically and systematically stated. It contains
the basics of swift with structures, data types, etc. After that,
the book discusses operations and control flow, mentioning loops
and branching. Variables, data types, and more. The operation and
flow control are elaborated with operators, branching, and loops.
You can also come to know about collections with arrays, sets, and
dictionaries. Finally, you can know about function types, function
methods, and lazy operations. 

Table of Contents

• Swift Basics

Swift Program Structure Swift Variable
Constants Swift Data Types Enums

• Swift Operators and Control Flow

Swift Operators Branching
Loops Summary

• Functions, Classes, and Structures

Functions Error Handling
Object-Oriented Features

• Collections
• Strings

String Fundamentals Using Strings
Substring

• Functional Programming and Lazy
  Operations

Function Type Function Methods Lazy
Operations Swift Code

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3. Game Development with Swift

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Swift is a powerful programming language^[3]. Games produced by this
language are also outstanding if you utilize the language properly.
Here is the book that discusses how to create games with swift
language. The designing, snapping, and executing of games are given
in the book to the point. Different important features, including
the views, camera, and actions, are well discussed. The book will
not only teach you the way to design; instead, you will see a
future of games in this swift book.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Designing Games with Swift
• Chapter 2: Sprites, Camera, Actions
• Chapter 3: Mix in the Physics
• Chapter 4: Adding Controls
• Chapter 5: Spawning Enemies, Coins, and
  Power-ups
• Chapter 6: Generating a Never-Ending World
• Chapter 7: Implementing collision Events
• Chapter 8: Polishing to a Shine- HUD, Parallax
  Backgrounds, Particles, and More.
• Chapter 9: Adding Menus and Sounds
• Chapter 10: Integrating with the Games Center
• Chapter 11: Ship It! Preparing for the App Store and
  Publication

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4. IOS 12 App Development with
Swift

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Swift book is the language that makes iOS, and here is the
perfect swift book to develop iOS 12 using swift. The book
introduces the joining procedure to the developer world. You can
get a guide of Xcode and get introduced to playgrounds based on
Xcode 10. Like other swift books, you will get flow control,
operators, and expressions and basics that you need while
developing an app. After reading the book, you will come to know
how to detect, remove, and solve any error.

Table of Contents

• Start Here
• Joining the Apple Developer Program
• Installing Xcode 10 and the iOS 12 SDK
• A Guided Tour of Xcode 10
• An Introduction to Xcode 10 Playgrounds
• Swift Data Types, Constants and Variables
• Swift Operators and Expression
• Swift Flow Control
• The Swift Switch Statement
• An Overview of Swift 4 Functions, Methods and
  Closures
• The Basics of Object-Oriented Programming in
  Swift
• An Introduction to Swift Subclassing and
  Extensions
• Working with Array and Dictionary in Swift
• Understanding Error handling in Swift 4
• The iOS 12 Application and Development
  Architecture
• Creating an Interactive iOS 12 App

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5. Learning Swift

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This swift book has decorated the entire contents in an
essential, extended, and advanced way. The basic Swift was
discussed with the introduction to swift and object-oriented
development. You can work with documents in macOS once you read the
book. Different works of iCloud are well discussed in this book.
Finally, you will get ideas and teachings about watchOS apps and
the distribution of code managing their quality.

Table of Contents

• Part I: Swift Basics

Getting Started The basics of Swift
Swift for Object-Oriented App Development

• Part II: A macOS App

Setting Up the macOS Notes App Working with
Documents on Mac OS User Interfaces and iCloud

• Part III: An iOS App

Setting gUp the iOS Notes App Working with Files
in iCloud Working with Documents on iOS
Working with Files and File Types Images and
Deletion Polishing the iOS App

• Part IV: Extending Your Apps

Building a watchOS App Code Quality and
Distribution

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6. Learn Swift Programming by
Examples

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Once you start learning something, you search for examples
that work as aids to accelerate your learning. Learn Swift
Programming by Examples is the best book to help you learn
programming in this manner. The book mentioned different projects,
tutorials, and methods. There is an excellent way to learn to
program by rhythm and exercise. Finally, different print out
procedures like diamond shapes in different forms, are well
mentioned here.

Table of Contents

• Xcode
• Swift Playgrounds
• Swift Projects in Xcode
• Swift Tutorials
• Rhythm for Working on the Exercise
• Common Errors
• Interactive Swift
• Print out Triangles
• Print out a Half Diamont
• Print out Diamond Shape
• Print Big Diamont, Name you Size
• Exercise

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7. Swift for Beginners

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The beginners will be amazed by the learning procedure of
this book. The book has a well-covered introduction about Swift.
Firstly the book will teach you the basics of Swift, and then
gradually, the development process will be discussed. You can learn
how to take control, the process of formalizing by using the
protocols and extensions. In the development section, the process
of making an app, working with Xcode, and the process of taking
swift in mobile is discussed. 

Table of Contents

• Section I: The Basics

Chapter1: Introducing Swift Chapter 2:Working
with Collections Chapter 3: Taking Control
Chapter 4: Writing Functions and Closures
Chapter 5: Organizing with Classes and Structures
Chapter 6: Formalizing with Protocols and Extensions

• Developing with Swift

Chapter 7: Working with Xcode Chapter 8: Making
a Better App Chapter 9: Going Mobile with Swift
Chapter 10: Advancing Ahead

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8. The Future of iOS Development:
Evaluating the Swift Programming Language

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The Future of iOS Development: Evaluating the Swift
Programming Language is a good standard book to get in-depth of
swift programming. At the very outset, the book introduces the
reader to the details of the language. The book evaluates Swift by
speed, feature, safety, etc. Finally, the book makes a discussion
about its evaluation. 

Table of Contents

• Background

Language Details Previous Work in Language
Evaluation

• Evaluation of Swift

Speed Feature Set
Safety  Swift Draw

• Discussions
• Conclusions

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9. The Swift Developer’s
Cookbook

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The Swift Developer’s Cookbook is the ultimate guide to
modern Swift. By reading this book, you will come to learn the
printing and mirroring options and different protocols. The book
also discusses errors and genetics. The book is enough to contain
all recipes for the development programming using
Swift. 

Table of Contents

• Welcome to Modern Swift
• Printing and Mirroring
• Optional
• Closures and Functions
• Genetics and Protocols
• Errors
• Types
• Miscellany

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10. Swift Apprentice: Beginning
Programming with Swift

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Swift Apprentice is the final swift book in our list where
the gradual teaching of Swift is discussed. The teaching starts
with the basics of Swift and then expands with different
expressions, variables, controls, functions, options, etc.
Different methods, classes, advanced classes, structures are
included in the book for the building purpose of self types by the
readers. Besides, the book contains different advanced level
studies.

Table of Contents

• Section I: Swift Basics

Chapter 1: Expressions, Variable & Constants
Chapter 2: Types and Operations Chapter 3: Basic
Control Flow Chapter 4: Advanced Control Flow
Chapter 5: Functions Chapter 6: Optionals

• Section II: Collection Types

Chapter 7: Arrays, Directories & Sets Chapter 8:
Collection Iteration with Closures Chapter 9:
Strings

• Section III: Building Your Own Types

Chapter 10: Structures Chapter 11:
Properties Chapter 12: Methods Chapter
13: Classes Chapter 14: Advanced Classes
Chapter 15: Enumerations Chapter 16:
Protocols Chapter 17: Generics

• Section IV: Advanced Topics

Chapter 18: Access Control & Code Organization
Chapter 19: Custom Operations, Subscripts & Keypaths
Chapter 20: Pattern Matching Chapter 21: Error
Handling Chapter 22: Encoding & Decoding Types
Chapter 23: Asynchronous Closures & Memory Management
Chapter 24: Value Types & Value Semantics
Chapter 25: Protocol-Oriented Programming 

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The Ending Thoughts

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The above-mentioned books are the best swift books
available online. We tried to gather and present the books that
cover all necessary and essential things a reader may search for.
If you do not get any of the things you are looking for in any
book, it is more likely and obvious that you will get that in other
books. However, if you have any good suggestions regarding these
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