Working With Property Lists In Swift — Part 1

Gabriel Theodoropoulos
6 min readMar 4, 2021

A property list file, better known as a plist file, is a specific kind of file that can store data in key-value pairs. In fact, property list files are XML files simply named differently in the Apple ecosystem. Making a parallelization, plist files are similar to dictionaries in Swift; the collection type that can also store key-value pairs of data.

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Gabriel Theodoropoulos

An iOS & macOS app maker writing code in Swift. Author of countless programming tutorials. Content creator. https://serialcoder.dev