Charts with swift

ios objective-c swift charts core-plot
eztam picture eztam · Mar 16, 2015 · Viewed 13k times · Source

I'm new in iOS development and want to create an app with some charts. I decided to start development with swift because it seemed to be more easy to learn for me as Java developer. But meanwhile I think using objective-c would have been the better choice because AFAIK there is no chart library available that match my criteria:

  • usable with swift
  • has line and bar charts
  • ability to draw charts with date and time axis
  • free to use or low price < 100 USD

Common chart libraries like JBChartView, Core-Plot and iOSPlot do not fulfill my criteria so I'm thinking about either to use a JavaScript chart library in a WebView or switching completely to objective-c

Is it good practice to use a JavaScript chart API in a WebView? If so, may this make problems on different devices with different screen sizes and orientations? What are common pitfalls with this approach?

Edit: Core-Plot release-2.0 works well with Swift

Answer

simon_smiley picture simon_smiley · Oct 7, 2015

You could use iOS-Charts

This is a great chart library written in swift and is on github:

There are some great tutorials going through the basics here.

iOS-Charts seems to fit your criteria

  • It is completely free
  • It is written specifically for Swift
  • It has 8 different graph types

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