There are a lot of active Twitter users that use Swift; in many cases posts will be marked with the #swift
hashtag, and can be found at http://twitter.com/search?q=%23swift. Popular users that the author follows include (in alphabetical Twitter handle name):
@AirspeedSwift:
This twitter has a good selection of tweets and retweets of Swift-related subjects@ChrisEidhof
: This is author of the Functional Swift book and@objcio
@CodeWithChris
: This twitter is a collection of tutorials on iOS programming@CodingInSwift:
This twitter contains cross-posts by a collection of Swift resources@CompileSwift
: This twitter contains posts on Swift@cwagdev
: Chris Wagner writes some of the iOS tutorials with Ray Wenderlich@FunctionalSwift
: This is a selection of functional snippets, along with a Functional Swift book@LucasDerraugh
: This is the creator of video tutorials on YouTube@NatashaTheRobot:
This twitter contains a great summary of what's happening, along with newsletters and cross references@nnnnnnnn
: Nate Cook, who reviewed an earlier version of this book and provides the Swifter list just mentioned@PracticalSwift
: This is a good collection of blog posts talking about the Swift language@rwenderlich
: Ray Wenderlich has many posts relating to iOS development; a wealth of information and more recently Swift topics as well@SketchyTech
: This is a collection of blog posts on Swift@SwiftCastTV
: These are video tutorials of Swift@SwiftEssentials
: This is the twitter feed for this book@SwiftLDN
: This Twitter posts Swift meetups based in London, also invites great Swift talks and presenters
In addition to the Swift-focused Twitter users, there are a number of other Cocoa (Objective-C) developers who blog regularly on topics relating to the iOS and OS X platforms. Given that any Objective-C framework can be integrated into a Swift app (and vice versa), quite often, there will be useful information from reading these posts:
@Cocoanetics
: Oliver Drobnik writes about iOS and provides training@CocoaPods
: CocoaPods is a dependency management system for Objective-C frameworks (pods) and is being extended into the Swift domain@Mattt
: Mattt Thompson writes about many iOS subjects, is the author of the AFNetworking and AlamoFire networking libraries, and who moved to Apple to write the Swift package manager@MikeAbdullah
:@MikeAsh
: Mike Ash knows everything there is to know, and what he doesn't know, he finds out@MZarra
: Marcus S. Zarra has written a lot about Core Data and synching@NSHipster
: This is a collection of assembled iOS and Cocoa posts that are organised by Mattt Thompson@objcio
: This is a monthly publication on Objective-C topics with some Swift@PerlMunger
: Matt Long posts about Swift, Cocoa, and iOS
The reviewers of this book included:
@AnilVrgs
: Anil Varghese@Ant_Bello
: Antonio Bello@ArvidGerstmann
: Arvid Gerstmann@jiaaro
: James Robert@nnnnnnnn
: Nate Cook
The author's personal and book twitter accounts are:
@AlBlue
is the author's twitter account@SwiftEssentials
is the book's twitter account
Meetups such as @SwiftLdn
keep a track of interesting Swift writers in a Twitter list at https://twitter.com/SwiftLDN/lists/swift-writers/members, which may have more up-to-date recommendations than this section, as well as the Ray Wenderlich team at https://twitter.com/rwenderlich/lists/raywenderlich-com-team/members.