Swift Roadmap

Install Xcode, explore Swift Playgrounds for quick experimentation, and understand how Swift Package Manager manages dependencies.

Learn Swift's type system, constants vs variables, string interpolation, enums, tuples, and all control flow constructs including pattern matching in switch.

Mobile Swift 6h

Understand Swift's optional type, the difference between if let and guard let, optional chaining (?.), forced unwrapping risks, and the nil coalescing operator.

Mobile Swift 5h

Master Swift closure syntax, capturing semantics, trailing closure shorthand, @escaping vs non-escaping, and using closures with collection higher-order functions.

Mobile Swift 6h

Learn Swift's protocol-oriented programming paradigm, the difference between value types (struct) and reference types (class), protocol conformance, and default protocol implementations via extensions.

Mobile Swift 7h

Master Swift's Protocol-Oriented Programming paradigm — the dominant Swift design philosophy. Define protocols with method and property requirements. Use protocol extensions to provide default implementations. Apply protocol composition (SomeProtocol & AnotherProtocol) and conditional conformance. Understand Equatable, Hashable, Comparable, Codable, and Identifiable. Use Opaque Types (some Protocol) and Existentials (any Protocol) introduced in Swift 5.7.

Mobile Swift 6h

Write reusable generic functions and types, use type constraints with where clauses, and understand associated types in protocols — the foundation for understanding the Swift standard library.

Mobile Swift 6h

Model errors with typed enums conforming to Error, use do-try-catch for recoverable errors, and leverage the Result type for async callbacks and functional error propagation.

Mobile Swift 5h

Use Swift's modern concurrency system: async/await, Task groups for parallel work, actors for safe state isolation, @MainActor for UI updates, and AsyncSequence for streaming data.

Mobile Swift 8h

Understand Automatic Reference Counting, detect and fix retain cycles with weak/unowned references, use capture lists in closures, and profile memory with Instruments Leaks and Allocations.

Mobile Swift 6h

Build declarative UIs with SwiftUI: views, modifiers, layouts (HStack/VStack/Grid), state management (@State, @Binding, @Observable macro), NavigationStack, and List/ForEach.

Mobile SwiftUI 10h

Persist app data with SwiftData (Swift 5.9+): define @Model classes, query with @Query in SwiftUI views, handle migrations, and use UserDefaults for lightweight key-value storage. Understand when to fall back to CoreData.

Mobile Swift 6h

Fetch and decode JSON APIs using URLSession with async/await, define Codable models with custom CodingKeys, handle HTTP errors, and build a reusable NetworkService layer.

Mobile Swift 6h

Structure production iOS apps with MVVM (ViewModel drives SwiftUI views), Clean Architecture layers (Domain/Data/Presentation), protocol-based dependency injection for testability, and the Coordinator pattern for navigation.

Mobile Swift 7h

Write unit and integration tests using XCTest and the new Swift Testing framework (@Test, @Suite, #expect), mock dependencies via protocol injection, and test async code with async test methods.

Configure App Store Connect, set up automatic signing, archive and upload builds, distribute via TestFlight for beta testing, and submit for App Store review with metadata and screenshots.