Framework

Swift

Build apps using a powerful open language.

Overview

Swift includes modern features like type inference, optionals, and closures, which make the syntax concise yet expressive. Swift ensures your code is fast and efficient, while its memory safety and native error handling make the language safe by design. Writing Swift code is interactive and fun in Swift Playgrounds, playgrounds in Xcode, and REPL.

var interestingNumbers = ["primes": [2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17],
    "triangular": [1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, 28],
    "hexagonal": [1, 6, 15, 28, 45, 66, 91]
]

for key in interestingNumbers.keys {
    interestingNumbers[key]?.sort(by: >)
}

print(interestingNumbers["primes"]!)
// Prints "[17, 13, 11, 7, 5, 3, 2]"

Learn Swift

If you're new to Swift, read The Swift Programming Language for a quick tour, a comprehensive language guide, and a full reference manual. If you're new to programming, check out Swift Playgrounds on iPad.

Swift is developed in the open. To learn more about the open source Swift project and community, visit Swift.org.

Topics

Standard Library

A signed integer value type.

struct Double

A double-precision, floating-point value type.

struct String

A Unicode string value that is a collection of characters.

An ordered, random-access collection.

struct Dictionary

A collection whose elements are key-value pairs.

Swift Standard Library

Solve complex problems and write high-performance, readable code.

Data Modeling

Choosing Between Structures and Classes

Decide how to store data and model behavior.

Adopting Common Protocols

Make your custom types easier to use by ensuring that they conform to Swift protocols.

Data Flow and Control Flow

Maintaining State in Your Apps

Use enumerations to capture and track the state of your app.

Preventing Timing Problems When Using Closures

Understand how different API calls to your closures can affect your app.

Language Interoperability

Objective-C and C Code Customization

Apply macros to your Objective-C APIs to customize how they're imported into Swift.

Migrating Your Objective-C Code to Swift

Learn the recommended steps to migrate your code.

Cocoa Design Patterns

Adopt and interoperate with Cocoa design patterns in your Swift apps.

Handling Dynamically Typed Methods and Objects in Swift

Cast instances of the Objective-C id type to a specific Swift type.

Using Objective-C Runtime Features in Swift

Use selectors and key paths to interact with dynamic Objective-C APIs.

Imported C and Objective-C APIs

Use native Swift syntax to interoperate with types and functions in C and Objective-C.

Structures

struct CollectionDifference

A collection of insertions and removals that describe the difference between two ordered collection states.

Reference

Swift Standard Library Functions

This chapter describes the global functions defined in the Swift standard library.