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Awesome iOS Books
A curated catalog of books for iOS, Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, and Apple platform development.
Awesome iOS Books helps developers find books for learning and deepening Apple platform engineering: iOS app development, Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, Objective-C, app architecture, concurrency, testing, databases, Metal, machine learning, watchOS, tvOS, macOS, and server-side Swift.
The list includes beginner-friendly books, advanced references, framework-specific guides, interview preparation. Entries link to official shop, publisher, author, or product pages where possible.
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iOS
- Practical Tips for Junior iOS Developers by Aryaman Sharda
- iOS 14 Programming for Beginners: by by Ahmad Sahar
- Beginning iPhone Development with SwiftUI by Wallace Wang
- Beginning iOS 13 Programming with Swift by Simon Ng
- iOS Apprentice by Matthijs Hollemans, Fahim Farook
- iOS 12 Programming Fundamentals with Swift by Matt Neuburg
- iOS 13 Programming Fundamentals with Swift by Matt Neuburg
- Intermediate iOS 12 Programming with Swift by Simon Ng
- Programming iOS 13 by Matt Neuburg
- Pro iPhone Development with Swift 5 by Wallace Wang
- Obscure Topics in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa by NSHipster
- Push Notifications by Tutorials by Scott Grosch, Marin Bencevic, Shai Mishali
- iOS App Distribution & Best Practices by Keegan Rush, Pietro Rea
- Getting Started with WidgetKit by Sagun Raj Lage, Prakshapan Shrestha
- Anyone Can Create an App by Wendy L. Wise
- iOS Development with Swift by Craig Grummitt
- Full Stack iOS Development with Swift and Vapor by Hem Dutt
- Extreme Mobile: Innovative Techniques for Crafting Customizable Mobile Apps Using iOS Frameworks by Charlie Cocchiaro
- Mastering iOS 18 Development by Avi Tsadok
- iOS 18 App Development Essentials by Neil Smyth
- iOS Application Security by David Thiel
- UIKit Apprentice by Fahim Farook
- Build Location Apps on iOS with Swift by Jeffrey Linwood
- Building iOS 17 Apps with Xcode Storyboards by Neil Smyth
Objective-C
- Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective-C by NSHipster
- Objective-C for Absolute Beginners by Gary Bennett, Mitchell Fisher, Brad Lees
- Objective-C for Swift Developers by Paul Hudson
- Programming in Objective-C by Stephen G. Kochan
Swift
- Swift Apprentice: Beyond the Basics by Eli Ganim, Ehab Amer, Matt Galloway
- The Swift Programming Language by Apple
- Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Mikey Ward
- Swift Cookbook: Proven Recipes for Developing Robust iOS Applications with Swift 5.9 by Keith Moon, Chris Barker, Daniel Bolella, Nathan Lawlor
- Swift Apprentice: Fundamentals by Alexis Gallagher, Ehab Amer, Matt Galloway, Eli Ganim, Ray Fix
- Advanced Swift by Chris Eidhof, Ole Begemann, and Airspeed Velocity
- Pro Swift by Paul Hudson
- Swift Protocol-Oriented Programming by Jon Hoffman
- Mastering Swift 5 by Jon Hoffman
- Optimizing Collections by Károly Lőrentey
- Hands-On Swift 5 Microservices Development by Ralph Kuepper
- Guide to Swift Strings by Flight School (Matt)
- Compiling Swift Generics by Slava Pestov
- Hello Swift! by Tanmay Bakshi, Lynn Beighley
- Swift in Depth by Tjeerd in 't Veen
- Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift by David Kopec
- Swift Gems by Natalia Panferova
- Swift Internals by Aaqib Hussain
- Expert Swift by Marin Bencevic, Ray Fix, Ehab Amer, Shai Mishali
- The Case of the Vanishing Bodies by Daniel H Steinberg
- Swift Style, Second Edition by Erica Sadun
- A Swift Kickstart, Second Edition by Daniel H Steinberg
Functional Swift
- RxSwift: Reactive Programming with Swift by Florent Pillet, Junior Bontognali, Scott Gardner, Ash Furrow, Marin Todorov, Shai Mishali
- Functional Swift by Chris Eidhof, Florian Kugler, Wouter Swierstra
- A Functional Programming Kickstart by Daniel H Steinberg
UI
- Auto Layout by Tutorials by Libranner Santos, Jayven Nhan
- Modern Auto Layout by Keith Harrison
- iOS Animations by Tutorials by Marin Todorov
- About iOS Accessibility by Mikhail Rubanov
- Developing Accessible iOS Apps by Daniel Devesa Derksen-Staats
- UI Design for iOS App Development by Bear Cahill
SwiftUI
- The Ultimate SwiftUI Layout Cookbook by Karin Prater
- Thinking in SwiftUI by Chris Eidhof, Florian Kugler
- SwiftUI by Tutorials by Raywenderlich Tutorial Team
- SwiftUI by Example by Paul Hudson
- SwiftUI Apprentice by Caroline Begbie, Audrey Tam
- SwiftUI Cookbook by Team Kodeco
- SwiftUI Charts Mastery by Mark Moeykens
- SwiftUI Essentials by Mark Moeykens
- SwiftUI Views Quick Start (FREE) by Mark Moeykens
- SwiftUI Views Mastery by Mark Moeykens
- Advanced SwiftUI Views Mastery by Mark Moeykens
- SwiftUI Animations Mastery by Mark Moeykens
- Working with Data in SwiftUI by Mark Moeykens
- SwiftUI Fundamentals by Natalia Panferova
- The SwiftUI Way by Natalia Panferova
- An iOS Developer's Guide to SwiftUI by Michele Fadda
- The Mystery of the Mutating Mannequin by Daniel H Steinberg
- Integrating SwiftUI into UIKit Apps by Natalia Panferova
- A SwiftUI Kickstart by Daniel H Steinberg
- Elevate SwiftUI Skills by Building Projects by Frahaan Hussain
Combine
- Using Combine By Joseph Heck
- Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift by Kodeco Team, Shai Mishali, Florent Pillet, Marin Todorov
- Combine Mastery in SwiftUI By Mark Moeykens
- Practical Combine by Donny Wals
- Asynchronous Programming with SwiftUI and Combine by Peter Friese
- A Combine Kickstart by Daniel H Steinberg
Architecture
- The Clean Swift Handbook by Raymond Law
- App Architecture by Chris Eidhof, Matt Gallagher, Florian Kugler
- Advanced iOS App Architecture by Rene Cacheaux, Josh Berlin
- Swift Design Patterns by Paul Hudson
- Design Patterns by Tutorials by Joshua Greene, Jay Strawn
- Hands-On Design Patterns with Swift by Giordano Scalzo, Florent Vilmart, Sergio De Simone
- Cocoa Design Patterns by Erik Buck
- SwiftUI Architecture by Mohammad Azam
- Mastering Swift Package Manager by Avi Tsadok
- Real-World iOS by Tutorials by Josh Steele, Aaqib Hussain, Renan Benatti Dias
- iOS Development at Scale by Eric Vennaro
Multithreading
- Concurrency by Tutorials by Scott Grosch
- Modern Concurrency in Swift by Marin Todorov
- Practical Swift Concurrency by Donny Wals
- Modern Concurrency on Apple Platforms by Andrés Ibañez Kautsch
- The Curious Case of the Async Cafe by Daniel H Steinberg
Data Structures and Algorithms
- Data Structures & Algorithms in Swift by Vincent Ngo, Kelvin Lau
- Swift Algorithms & Data Structures by Wayne Bishop
- Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift by David Kopec
Database
- Practical Core Data: A modern guide to the Core Data framework by Donny Wals
- Core Data by Tutorials by Aaron Douglas, Saul Mora, Matthew Morey, Pietro Rea
- Core Data by Florian Kugler, Daniel Eggert
- Realm: Building Modern Swift Apps with Realm Database by Marin Todorov
- Build iOS Database Apps with Swift and SQLite by Kevin Languedoc
- Core Data for iOS by Tim Isted, Tom Harrington
- Core Data Mastery in SwiftUI by Mark Moeykens
- SwiftData Mastery in SwiftUI by Mark Moeykens
- SwiftData by Example by Paul Hudson
- SwiftData Architecture by Mohammad Azam
- App Development Using iOS iCloud by Shantanu Baruah, Shaurya Baruah
- Build Mobile Apps with SwiftUI and Firebase by Sullivan De Carli
ARKit
- Apple Augmented Reality by Tutorials by Chris Language
- Beginning ARKit for iPhone and iPad by Wallace Wang
- ARKit by Tutorials by Chris Language, Namrata Bandekar, Antonio Bello, Tammy Coron
- Mastering ARKit by Jayven Nhan
- Apple Vision Pro for Creators by John Ray
- Computer Vision and Augmented Reality in iOS by Ahmed Fathi Bekhit
Machine Learning
- Practical AI with Swift by Mars Geldard, Jonathon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison, Tim Nugent
- Deep Learning with Swift for TensorFlow by Rahul Bhalley
- Machine Learning by Tutorials by Matthijs Hollemans, Audrey Tam, Chris LaPollo
- AI Mastery in SwiftUI by Mark Moeykens
- Artificial Intelligence Using Swift by Mark Watson
Metal
- Metal by Tutorials by Marius Horga, Caroline Begbie
- Apple Metal: From Fundamentals to Practice by George Ostroborod
- Metal Programming Guide: Tutorial and Reference via Swift by Janie Clayton
Catalyst
Game Development
- Dive Into SpriteKit by Paul Hudson
- 3D Apple Games by Tutorials by Chris Language
- 2D Apple Games by Tutorials by Caroline Begbie, Mike Berg, Michael Briscoe, Ali Hafizji, Marin Todorov, Ray Wenderlich
- Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies by Tammy Coron
- Beginning iOS Game Center and GameKit by Kyle Richter, Beau G. Bolle
Reverse Engineering
- Practical Reverse Engineering by Bruce Dang, Alexandre Gazet, Elias Bachaalany, Sébastien Josse
- Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering by Derek Selander
Network
Testing
- iOS Test-Driven Development by Tutorials by Joshua Greene, Mike Katz
- Test-Driven iOS Development with Swift 4 by Dr. Dominik Hauser
- Testing Swift by Paul Hudson
- The Case of the Crimson Test Suite by Daniel H Steinberg
- iOS Unit Testing by Example by Jon Reid
- Test-Driven Development in Swift by Gio Lodi
- Modularizing Legacy Projects Using TDD by Khaled El-Morabea, Hassaan El-Garem
watchOS
- watchOS by Tutorials by Ehab Amer, Scott Atkinson, Soheil Azarpour, Matthew Morey, Ben Morrow, Audrey Tam, Jack Wu
- Hacking with watchOS by Paul Hudson
- watchOS With SwiftUI by Tutorials by Scott Grosch
tvOS
- tvOS Apprentice by Christine Abernathy, Jawwad Ahmad, Chris Belanger, Eric Cerney, Josh Greene, Michael Katz, Kelvin Lau, Adrian Strahan
- Developing for Apple TV using tvOS and Swift by Gary Bennett, Brad Lees, Stefan Kaczmarek
macOS
- macOS Apps Step by Step by Sarah Reichelt
- macOS Apprentice by Sarah Reichelt
- macOS by Tutorials by Sarah Reichelt
- Hacking with macOS by Paul Hudson
- macOS Daemonology by Volodymyr Vashurkin
- Interprocess Communication with macOS by Hem Dutt
Server Side Swift
- Practical Server Side Swift by Tibor Bödecs
- Server-Side Swift (Vapor Edition) by Paul Hudson
- Server-Side Swift (Kitura Edition) by Paul Hudson
- Server Side Swift with Vapor by Tim Condon, Tanner Nelson, Jonas Schwartz, Logan Wright
- Server Side Swift with Kitura by David Okun, Chris Bailey
Interview
- The iOS Interview Guide by Alex Bush
- Ace the iOS Interview Release by Aryaman Sharda
- Cracking the iOS Interview by Swift Anytime
- The Ultimate iOS Interview Playbook by Avi Tsadok
- The iOS Engineer Playbook by Mike Salari
🇷🇺 Russian books
- Разработка приложений на Swift 5.1 и SwiftUI с нуля - Александр Казанский
- Язык Swift. Самоучитель - Айк Харазян
- Swift подробно - Инт Чейрд
- Swift. Основы разработки приложений под iOS, iPadOS и macOS - Усов Василий
- Нативная разработка мобильных приложений. Перекрестный справочник для iOS и Android - Льюис Шон, Данн Майк
- Swift? Не вопрос. Создай свое приложение - Антон Разгуляев
- Head First. Изучаем Swift - Мэннинг Д., Баттфилд-Эддисон П.
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