Read a free sample or buy App Development with Swift by Apple Education. You can read this book with iBooks on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. (more…)

In order to work with C APIs, we sometimes need to convert Swift object references to and from raw pointers. Swift's Unmanaged struct is the standard API for handling this. Today, I'd like to talk about what it does and how to use it. (more…)

RbSwift - Extensions for Swift with hundreds of handy methods. (more…)

I chose Objective-C to write the code for Up Spell, my word game for iOS. Find out why. More about Up Spell. https://upgames.dev Steve Jobs at 1997 WWDC. htt... (more…)

In his excellent interview with the Accidental Tech Podcast, Chris Lattner defended the goal of Swift being suitable to both beginner and advanced programmers. He cites progressive disclosure, a design philosophy that is often employed in GUI applications...