Show HN: My first iOS app written in Swift

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3 points·raymckaig··6 comments

Looks awesome!

Are you experienced with Objective-C or did you just pick up swift?

How would you recommend learning swift without covering anything more than the basics of Objective-C?

Thanks adam419,

I've got four apps in the store now. The first, "Lend my stuff" is written in Objective-c.

PhotoOrganiser and Intervalos are written using Appcelerator's Titanium toolset (all written in Javascript but run as native apps). These have been the easiest to write and it's an exellent way of writing apps if your background contains Javascript.

I found Swift very easy to pick-up. It has a couple of gotcha's but once you get your head round these it's a great language. I'll be writing all my future apps in Swift.

I'd also like to add that there's no need to learn any Objective-c in order to learn Swift.

Sweet! Do you have any recommended books for learning iOS with swift?

The trouble with books is they become out of date, so its better to learn online in some fashion.

You could do a quick, short course such as BitFountain's http://bitfountain.io/course/mini-iOS8/.

I did the full iOS 8 with Swift course when it was on sale a couple of months ago, but it's back up to its $499 price.

Here's a link for $89, found this on google, actually went all the way through because I was intrigued enough:

https://stacksocial.com/sales/the-complete-ios-8-developers-...

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