Swift Top 10 Articles For The Past Year (v.2017)

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4 min readFeb 23, 2017

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For the past year, we’ve ranked nearly 9,000 Swift articles to pick the Top 10 stories (0.11% chance) that can help advance your career in 2017.

Swift, developed by Apple, has become the most popular open source programming language and 2nd most popular skill for freelancers across all industries. [Source: Github & Upwork]

Tim Cook introducing Swift programming language for the first time

This Swift list includes topics such as: Algorithms, Libraries, Open source apps, Toolkit, Strings, Array, Continuous delivery, Animation, iOS 10, XCode 8.

This is an extremely competitive list and Mybridge has not been solicited to promote any publishers. Mybridge A.I. ranks articles based on the quality of content measured by our machine and a variety of human factors including engagement and popularity.

Give a plenty of time to read all of the articles you’ve missed this year. You’ll find the experience and techniques shared by the leading iOS engineers particularly useful.

Rank 1

Swift Algorithm Club: Algorithms and data structures in Swift, with explanations! [11,147 stars on Github].

Rank 2

My iOS Development Toolkit 2017. Courtesy of Sebastian Boldt 👨🏻‍💻

Rank 3

Code examples for new APIs of iOS 10. [2,795 stars on Github].

Rank 4

10 Tips to become a better Swift Developer: Type less, read less, produce more. Courtesy of Bob Lee

Rank 5

Essential details about Strings in Swift. Courtesy of Dmitri Pavlutin

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Rank 6

30 Mini Projects in Swift [1,620 stars on Github].

Rank 7

Continuous Delivery for iOS & Mac Apps. Courtesy of Thomas Dohmke and realm.io

Rank 8

A Swift Introduction to Algorithms — Part 1.

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Rank 9

Swift : Syntax cheat codes. Courtesy of Andyy Hope

Rank 10

Swift Pokemon. Closures Capture Semantics: Catch them all! Courtesy of Oliver Halligon

<Open source of the Year>

No 1) Kickstarter

Kickstarter for iOS. Courtesy of Brandon Williams and Kickstarter

[4,203 stars on Github]

No 2) Instagram

IGListKit: A data-driven UICollectionView framework for building fast list. Courtesy of Instagram Engineering

[4,615 stars on Github]

No 3) Hero

Hero: Supercharged transition engine for iOS.

[6,968 stars on Github]

<Our post of the Year>

No 1) Libraries

39 Open Source Swift UI Libraries For iOS App Development. By Mybridge

[1,000+ recommends on Medium]

No 2) Apps

21 Amazing Open Source iOS Apps Written in Swift. By Mybridge

[1,000+ recommends on Medium]

That’s it for Swift Yearly Top 10. If you like this curation, read best daily articles based on your programming skills on our iOS App.

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