Data Types, Since Swift, is a new programming language for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS app development. Swift provides its own versions of all fundamental C and Objective-C types, including Int for integers, Double and Float for floating-point values, Bool for Boolean values, and String for textual data.
Swift is a type-safe language, which means the language helps you to be clear about the types of values your code can work with. If part of your code requires a String, type safety prevents you from passing it an Int by mistake. Likewise, type safety prevents you from accidentally passing an optional String to a piece of code that requires a non-optional String.
Data Types
Int or UInt − This is used for whole numbers. More specifically, you can use Int32, Int64 to define 32 or 64 bit signed integers, whereas UInt32 or UInt64 to define 32 or 64-bit unsigned integer variables. For example, 42 and -23.
Float − This is used to represent a 32-bit floating-point number and numbers with smaller decimal points. For example, 3.14159, 0.1, and -273.158.
Double − This is used to represent a 64-bit floating-point number and used when floating-point values must be very large. For example, 3.14159, 0.1, and -273.158.
Bool − This represents a Boolean value that is either true or false.
String − This is an ordered collection of characters. For example, “Hello, World!”
Character − This is a single-character string literal. For example, “C”
Optional − This represents a variable that can hold either a value or no value.
Tuples − This is used to group multiple values in a single Compound Value.
Integer types
32-bit platform, Int is the same size as Int32.
64-bit platform, Int is the same size as Int64.
32-bit platform, UInt is the same size as UInt32.
64-bit platform, UInt is the same size as UInt64.
Int8, Int16, Int32, Int64 can be used to represent 8 Bit, 16 Bit, 32 Bit, and 64 Bit forms of a signed integer.
UInt8, UInt16, UInt32, and UInt64 can be used to represent 8 Bit, 16 Bit, 32 Bit and 64 Bit forms of unsigned integer.
Datatypes
| Data Types | Example | Description |
| Character | “s”,”a” | a 16-bit Unicode character |
| String | “hello world!” | represents textual data |
| Int | 3, -23 | an integer number |
| Float | 2.4, 3.14, -23.21 | represents 32-bit floating-point number |
| Double | 2.422342412 | represents 64-bit floating-point number |
| Bool | true and false | Any of two values: true or false |
Integers
| Variant | Size | Range |
| Int8 | 8 bit | -128 to 127 |
| Int16 | 16 bit | -215 to 215-1 |
| Int32 | 32 bit | -231 to 231-1 |
| Int64 | 64 bit | -263 to 263-1 |
| UInt | Depends on platform | 0 to 232(32-bit platform) 0 to 264(64-bit platform) |
Double to store the number with more precision (up to 15 decimal places)
Float to store the number with less precision (up to 6 decimal places)
Stay always with right Data types 🙂
