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A curated list of awesome Swift frameworks, libraries and software.

Awesome Swift

A curated list of awesome Swift frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php.

• Awesome Swift
  • JSON Manipulation
  • Databases
  • Testing
  • Queue
  • HTTP
  • Security
  • Logging
  • Third Party APIs
  • Extensions
• Resources
  • Swift Books
  • Swift Videos
  • Swift Playgrounds
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

JSON Manipulation

• SwiftyJSON - The better way to deal with JSON data in Swift.
• json-swift - A basic library for working with JSON in Swift.

Databases

Databases implemented in Swift.

• Realm - A mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Quick - A behavior-driven development test framework for Swift and Objective-C.
• Sleipnir - A BDD-style framework for Swift.
• Nimble - A Matcher Framework for Swift.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• TaskQueue - A Task Queue Class developed in Swift.

HTTP

Swift libraries and wrappers for HTTP clients.

• Alamofire - an HTTP networking library written in Swift.
• SwiftHTTP - Thin wrapper around NSURLSession in swift. Simplifies HTTP requests.
• Net - HttpRequest wrapper written in Swift.

Security

Libraries for generating secure random numbers, encrypting data and scanning for vulnerabilities.

• CryptoSwift - Crypto related functions and helpers for Swift implemented in Swift programming language.
• SHA256-Swift - Swift framework wrapping CommonCrypto's SHA256 methods.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• XCGLogger - A debug log framework for use in Swift projects.
• Swell - A logging utility for Swift and Objective C.

Third Party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• Swifter - A Twitter framework for iOS & OS X written in Swift

Extensions

• Dollar.swift - A functional tool-belt for Swift Language similar to Lo-Dash or Underscore in Javascript.
• swiftz - A Swift library for functional programming.
• ExSwift - JavaScript (Lo-Dash, Underscore) & Ruby inspired set of Swift extensions for standard types and classes.
• Observable-Swift - Value Observing and Events for Swift.
• PromiseKit - A delightful Promises implementation for iOS.
• Promise - Simple promises library in Swift.
• Pythonic.swift - Pythonic tool-belt for Swift – a Swift implementation of selected parts of Python standard library.
• SWRoute - A tiny Swift wrapper. Allows you to route (hook) quite any function/method with another function/method or even a closure.
• Euler - Swift Custom Operators for Mathematical Notation.
• swix - Swift Matrix and Machine Learning Library.
• Easy-Cal-Swift - Overload +-*/ operator for Swift, make it easier to use (and not so strict).
• AlecrimCoreData - A simple Core Data wrapper library written in Swift.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites and articles, for improving your Swift development skills and knowledge.

Swift Websites

• Official website - A home page of Swift programming language.
• Official blog - Official Swift Blog.
• Jameson Quave's blog - Tips for everyday work with Swift.
• Swift Collection on Medium - Collection of blog posts about Swift on Medium.
• Swift Collection on raywenderlich.com - Collection of blog posts about Swift on raywenderlich.
• SwiftInFlux - An attempt to gather all that is in flux in Swift.
• We ❤ Swift - Tutorials and guides.
• 100 days of swift blog - Each day learn some new concepts, and apply it by making our very own app.
• Natasha The Robot - Nice blog about Swift by Natasha The Robot.

Swift Books

• The Swift Programming Language
• Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C
• Swift Standard Library Reference
• Learn to Program iOS and OS X with Apple Swift

Swift Videos

• TheSwiftLanguage youtube channel - Videos about the Swift programming language by Apple.
• Brian Advent youtube channel - High quality Swift tutorials.
• SkipCasts youtube channel - Skip Wilson's casts on Swift.

Swift Playgrounds

• Learn-swift playground - Learn Swift interactively through these playgrounds.
• Design-Patterns-In-Swift - Design Patterns implemented in Swift.

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesomeness list.

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please submit a pull request or create an issue to add a new framework, library or software to the list. Do not submit a project, which hasn't been updated in the past 6 months or is not awesome.