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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• Machine Learning
• Metal
• Catalyst
• Game Development
• Reverse Engineering
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• watchOS
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• macOS
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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 Swift 5 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
• 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 Application Security by David Thiel
• UIKit Apprentice by Fahim Farook

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 by Keith Moon, Chris Barker
• Swift Apprentice by Ehab Amer, Alexis Gallagher, Matt Galloway, Eli Ganim, Ben Morrow, Cosmin Pupaza, Steven Van Impe
• 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

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

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
• The Mystery of the Mutating Mannequin by Daniel H Steinberg

Combine

• Using Combine By Joseph Heck
• Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift by Raywenderlich Tutorial Team
• Combine Mastery in SwiftUI By Mark Moeykens
• Practical Combine by Donny Wals

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

Multithreading

• Concurrency by Tutorials by Scott Grosch
• Modern Concurrency in Swift by Marin Todorov
• Practical Swift Concurrency by Donny Wals
• The Curious Case of the Async Cafe by Daniel H Steinberg

Data Structures and Algorithms

• Data Structures and Algorithms by Kelvin Lau, Vincent Ngo
• 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
• 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

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

Metal

• Metal by Tutorials by Caroline Begbie, Marius Horga
• Apple Metal: From Fundamentals to Practice by George Ostroborod
• Metal Programming Guide: Tutorial and Reference via Swift by Janie Clayton

Catalyst

• Catalyst by Tutorials By Marin Bencevic, Andy Pereira and Nick Bonatsakis

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

Reverse Engineering

• Practical Reverse Engineering by Bruce Dang, Alexandre Gazet, Elias Bachaalany, Sébastien Josse
• Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering by Derek Selander

Network

• Guide to Swift Codable by Flight School (Matt)

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

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

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

🇷🇺 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

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