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title: "Swift – Blog"
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url: "https://img.ly/blog/tag/swift/"
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Every IMG.LY blog post tagged **Swift**, newest first.

- [Building Custom Variable SF Symbols in Figma for our CreativeEditor SDK for iOS](https://img.ly/blog/building-custom-variable-sf-symbols-in-figma-for-our-creativeeditor-sdk-for-ios.md): How we went from community Figma plugins to our own “SF Symbol Generator” to create custom SF Symbols for our CreativeEditor SDK (CE.SDK) for iOS.
- [Working with Large Video and Image Files on iOS with Swift](https://img.ly/blog/working-with-large-video-and-image-files-on-ios-with-swift.md): Find your best strategy for compressing and resizing images, videos, and other files with Swift.
- [How to Make an Animated GIF Using Swift](https://img.ly/blog/how-to-make-an-animated-gif-using-swift.md): Learn how to create animated GIF files with Swift, and also extract still images from a video!
- [How to Make Videos from Still Images with AVFoundation and Swift](https://img.ly/blog/how-to-make-videos-from-still-images-with-avfoundation-and-swift.md): Convert still images into video files with two strategies.
- [How to Merge Videos in iOS with Swift](https://img.ly/blog/combine-video-clips-into-a-new-file-in-ios-with-swift.md): Learn how to combine videos in iOS with Swift and jump into advanced creations.
- [How To Add Text to Video in Swift](https://img.ly/blog/add-text-to-video-in-swift.md): Use Swift and AVMutableVideoComposition to add a text overlay to a video clip!
- [How to Trim and Crop Video in Swift](https://img.ly/blog/trim-and-crop-video-in-swift.md): Learn how to use Swift and AVKit to crop a video clip and trim a video timeline.
- [How to build Instagram’s Story Editor in a Day](https://img.ly/blog/how-to-build-instagrams-story-editor-in-a-day-23be9adff9b.md): A common question we get asked from our customers, is whether they’ll be able to create an entirely different user interface using our…
- [Bringing Wide Color to PhotoEditor SDK](https://img.ly/blog/bringing-wide-color-to-photoeditor-sdk-a6ce8bb19ef7.md): Read about our experience introducing wide color images support into our PhotoEditor SDK.

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## More Resources

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