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  • Algorithms helps you understand common algorithms in computer science, all implemented and explained step by step in Swift.
  • Custom SwiftUI Components walks you through building a wide variety of reusable UI components using SwiftUI.
  • Data Structures teaches you how to build stacks, lists, trees and more, while working with a variety of common Swift protocols.
  • Functional Programming walks you through hands-on examples of how to build smaller, composable, more testable code using functional approaches such as filter(), map(), and reduce().
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  • Intermediate SwiftUI is packed with tips and tricks to help you write better SwiftUI code, including customizing common controls with styles, handling size classes better, and working with dynamic properties.
  • Making the most of Foundation goes back to the basics of Apple's Foundation framework, exploring how best to use common code such as UserDefaults and Measurement.
  • Networking covers a core topic in a fresh way, showing you smart ways to make your code simpler and safer using generics, Combine, and more.
  • Remaking Apps walks you through building copies of well-known apps from iOS using SwiftUI, showing you how easy it is to get powerful effects with very little code.
  • Rendering Charts in SwiftUI shows you how SwiftUI can be used to build complete types of charts from scratch, including pie charts, bar charts, and more.
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FAQ

Does this subscription give me all your books?

The articles produced for Hacking with Swift+ are all new and exclusive to subscribers, but after subscribing for 18 months you'll also gain free online access to over a dozen of my books. This means your subscription grows as you do, making Hacking with Swift+ the largest and most comprehensive subscription around.

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How is a team subscription different from an individual subscription?

When you subscribe with at least three seats, all members of your team gain immediate access to the Hacking with Swift reading library, rather than waiting 18 months – that's over a dozen of my books to maximise your team's learning.

What happens in the monthly live streams?

Every Hacking with Swift+ subscriber is invited to join my private monthly live streams on YouTube, where I build a complete app from scratch while answering questions along the way. This is your chance to get involved and explore projects being written live, and these streams are always hugely popular.

What happens if I miss a live stream?

All live streams are recorded, and posted onto the main Hacking with Swift+ site afterwards. Even better, they include a full transcript alongside, so if you prefer text tutorials to video tutorials you have that option.

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Every subscriber can enjoy an ad-free experience on Hacking with Swift – all you need to do is log in, and the site will automatically remove the adverts. To give you the fastest reading experience, we also remove the gray bar under the menu, plus the right-hand bar that sits next to every article.

Is Hacking with Swift+ suitable for absolute beginners?

If you're an absolute beginner you should start with my free 100 Days of SwiftUI course, which teaches you the fundamentals of Swift and SwiftUI. However, Hacking with Swift+ includes complete solutions to all the checkpoints and milestones in the 100 Days of SwiftUI series, making it the perfect companion as you're learning.

What's more, Hacking with Swift+ will grow with you once you've finished learning – it has a wide range of intermediate to advanced Swift techniques and tutorials that will keep pushing your skills further, no matter what your goal.

Some sites claim to have thousands of videos – why is HWS+ better?

Hacking with Swift+ focuses firmly on two things:

  1. Giving you the depth you need to get a strong grasp of each topic. Where other sites make hundreds of three or four minute videos that touch lightly on each subject, we prefer to go into much more detail – 20 or 30 minutes, and often longer – so you get to understand why things work as well as how.
  2. We teach Swift, Swift, and more Swift. We don't do Kotlin, we aren't interested in Dart, we won't try to squeeze in Flutter, and you won't find any React Native. That's not to say those other technologies aren't interesting, only that you're here to take your Swift skills further and that's exactly what we care about most.

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Hacking with Swift+ costs $20 a month, $200 a year, or $400 every 2 years, per person. Your membership includes all subscriber-only videos and articles available now and published in the future, for as long as your membership remains active. You can cancel your membership at any time, and your access will continue until your term ends.

What's the difference between Monthly and Yearly subscriptions?

Hacking with Swift+ is $20 per month, and you can cancel whenever you want. If you intend to work through many articles and really push your learning forward, you should consider the yearly or 2-yearly subscription options, which are $200/year or $400/2-years – a saving of $40 every year.

All tiers get access to exactly the same high-quality videos, articles, and source code, but with a 2-year subscription you gain immediate access to the complete Swift Career Accelerator and online reading library.

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Yes! Many Hacking with Swift+ articles end with challenges to help you take your learning further – code to try, problems to solve, questions to consider, and more.

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If at any point you want to cancel your Hacking with Swift+ subscription, you can do so directly through your Gumroad account. Your access to the subscriber-only content will remain active until your subscription term ends, at which point it will cease.

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If you live in a country or state where tax is applied to digital purchases, that will be added to your subscription price. As you might imagine there isn't a lot I can do about that.

Will you still make free tutorials?

Yes, absolutely! I believe it's important to help everyone learn, so I will still be publishing as many free tutorials as I can. This won't be affected by Hacking with Swift+.

Here's a sample of what's waiting for you…


Customizing Toggle using ToggleStyle

9:28

INTERMEDIATE SWIFTUI

Customizing Toggle using ToggleStyle

Most of the time the built-in iOS controls are great, but sometimes you want something just a little different. In this article I’m going to walk you through how you can take complete control over the way toggle switches work in SwiftUI, providing custom rendering and interactions.

Fireworks

2:05:15

LIVE STREAMS

Fireworks

In this article we’re going to build a tool that designs particle systems for SwiftUI apps, all built on top of the TimelineView and Canvas that were added in SwiftUI. I think you’ll really be amazed how fast this comes together!

Adding a meteor shower

25:55

REMAKING WEATHER

Adding a meteor shower

Large parts of Apple’s Weather app is about bringing little sparks of joy to an otherwise very serious, fact-driven experience, but none more so than the random little meteors that fly by on starry nights. They move so fast so you might be tempted to skip over them, but I think it’s definitely worth exploring and having some fun with!

Testing the basics

15:50

ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP

Testing the basics

At last it’s time to start writing tests for our project, which means a little bit of setup work backed by writing our first couple of tests – we’ll take this slow initially, but lay down a good foundation for future tests.

SnowSeeker

9:50

SOLUTIONS

SnowSeeker

This challenge asks you add a photo credit to resort images, handle loading and saving of favorite resorts, then add sorting options to the main listing. Let’s tackle it now…

Why opaque return types are so important

12:19

ADVANCED SWIFT

Why opaque return types are so important

Opaque return types are a powerful feature in Swift, and are also critically important for writing SwiftUI. In this article I’ll be explaining how they work, and why they give us more power than returning a simple protocol.

UI Testing with SwiftUI

47:29

ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP

UI Testing with SwiftUI

Even after writing stacks of unit tests, chances are your test coverage is still only around 50%. Those units tests are really important, but if you really want great test coverage you need to add some UI tests and that’s exactly what we’re going to work on here.

Single-item collections

7:27

INSIDE SWIFT

Single-item collections

Collections like arrays and sets are how we store lots of objects in a single place, but what if we wanted to store only one item? More importantly, why would we want to store only one item?

Parsing difficult JSON

26:05

WORKING WITH DATA

Parsing difficult JSON

If you have nice, clean JSON then using Swift and Codable is like a dream come true. But what if you have messy JSON, or JSON where you really don’t know what you’ll receive ahead of time? In this article I’ll show you how to handle any kind of JSON in an elegant way, without relying on third-party libraries.

AutoTranslate

1:45:23

LIVE STREAMS

AutoTranslate

We're going to build an app that translates English into multiple other languages, then exports it ready for Xcode to use in localizations.

Understanding generics – part 2

30:48

INTERMEDIATE SWIFT

Understanding generics – part 2

In this second tutorial on generics, we’re going to explore creating several different generic types, look at extending generics, and look at how we can apply our generics knowledge to create property wrappers.

Just for fun: weather forecasting

1:09:19

EVENTS

Just for fun: weather forecasting

Now you understand how widgets work, I want to give you a fun and simple task to experiment with. There’s no example solution here because this is just a sandbox for your ideas, but we’ll end up with a fun quiz to test what you learned.

Continuing SwiftUI

1:01:31

EVENTS

Continuing SwiftUI

Now that we have covered all the changes in Swift concurrency, we can start to look at the changes in SwiftUI, starting with refreshable() and searchable().

Moonshot

16:07

SOLUTIONS

Moonshot

This challenge asks you to add some extra text to the mission view, break up at least two SwiftUI views, then, for something harder, allow the user to move between a grid and a list for missions. Let’s tackle it now…

allSatisfy()

11:01

INSIDE SWIFT

allSatisfy()

I want to look at a bafflingly brilliant piece of the Swift standard library: the allSatisfy() method of sequences, which I think is quite literally perfect. Let's get into it!

Optimizing for visionOS

11:22

ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP

Optimizing for visionOS

The last platform we're going to target is visionOS, which is actually the easiest – Apple seem to have put in a great deal of effort to make SwiftUI fit there naturally, so it requires almost no effort from us.

What do you think is a sensible minimum iOS deployment target?

2:44

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

What do you think is a sensible minimum iOS deployment target?

You can go for a simple “current version minus 1” answer here, but it won’t do you much good – talk about specific features you care about, or perhaps even specific bugs that got fixed.

Making your app accessible

16:13

ULTIMATE PORTFOLIO APP

Making your app accessible

It is my firm belief that every iOS app should be usable to everyone, and putting in the work to make your app function well no matter who is using it says a lot about the kind of developer you are.

Modern, safe networking

1:47:01

EVENTS

Modern, safe networking

Some apps – banking apps, password managers, social media and so on – have complex networking requirements because of requirements like OAuth 2, certificate pinning, and more. But the vast majority of apps are much simpler: we want to read and write data, so with such simple requirements how can we make networking? Let’s find out…

Wordcraft

1:34:45

LIVE STREAMS

Wordcraft

This month we're going to make another game, and it's one that been rattling around my head for so long that I'm glad to finally be able to share it with you!

 
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