Is there any help out there for someone trying to use sqlite with swift?

most of the time you dont connect directly to the database itself (is this what you are trying to do?). Generally you create a web based API using PHP or something that fetches things from the DB and returns them to you in JSON, XML, etc

Here is a tutorial that covers building a an app with swift that uses a PHP web service to connect to a MySQL DB

Manisha, The only place I have found to answer this is in a book by Neil Smyth called iOS 7 App Development. It's available through amazon. He is the only one who has a working example for reading a sqlite from an app in objective-c. In the iOS 8 version of the book he uses swift.

If I had it to do over again I would follow the lessons learned in the weather app lesson here in Treehouse. The way they taught me how to serialize json, is a much better approach. You can have the database export to json and then have the app read the information from a web server. That's the way I would do it.

If you follow the Neil Smyth book, the biggest way I messed up was when I imported the database file into the Xcode project. follow his directions exactly.

see this stack overflow post. you can import the library using a bridging header

to create a briding header you can go to file -> new -> objective -c file -> after you finishing creating the file it will ask if you want to create a bridging header. select yes. you can remove the .m file after creating the bridging header

solved my issue.

The only way to do this is by using a wrapper and an Objective-c bridging header.

If any one wants to know more I can help.