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This tutorial belongs to the Swift series

Suppose you have an array in Swift, like this:

let items = [1, 2, 3]

and you want to get a random element from it.

The Array type provides the randomElement() method, which returns an optional Element?:

let item = items.randomElement()

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Arrays
2: Shuffling Arrays
3: ▶︎ Random Array Items
4: Dictionaries
5: Sets
6: Tuples