Category Archives for Swift
Swift: Avoiding C-Style For-Loops
C-style for-loops will be removed in Swift 3. This may seem a little bit strange at first sight. But Swift has some features that allow better loop structures. C-style for-loops Let’s start by looking
Continue readingFebruary 2016: The Current State Of Swift
Recently there were some interesting reports and articles about the state of Swift. In this post we will discuss them and put them in perspective.
Continue readingHow To Use Both Swift And Objective-C In One Project?
The Swift and Objective-C interoperability is very good so that it is very easy to use both Swift and Objective-C in one project.
Continue readingSwift: Public Properties With Private Setters
In Swift you can easily create public properties with private setters. It makes your code much safer and shorter.
Continue readingSwift 3 And Beyond
On December 3, 2015, the Swift language was released as open source. It also involves a roadmap for Swift 3, which will be released in fall 2016.
Continue readingThe Pyramid Of Doom In Swift
If you are using a lot of nested indentations, your code becomes rapidly unclear – the pyramid of doom. You can avoid this by using the keyword guard.
Continue readingSwift: weak and unowned
With the keywords weak and unowned you can avoid so-called reference cycles. In this post we will discuss the differences between them.
Continue readingShould You Migrate Objective-C Code To Swift?
The future belongs to Swift, but does this mean that you should migrate Objective-C code to Swift?
Continue readingSwift: map and flatMap
With the functions map and flatMap you can easily transform an array into a new one.
Continue readingA Trick To Discover Retain Cycles
Although ARC does most of the memory handling work for you, your app can still suffer from so-called retain cycles. So it is very important to discover them.
Continue readingSwift Tutorial For Beginners: Part 1
Swift is Apple’s new programming language for developing applications for iOS, watchOS, tvOS and Mac OS. In this Swift tutorial you will learn all its basics.
Continue readingSwift: Using Local Closures
Closures are often used as function arguments. But sometimes there are situations where local closures can be very handy.
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