Category Archives for Swift
Type Casting in Swift
In object-oriented programming, type casting is used to treat an object as one of another type. In this article we will discuss how this works in Swift.
Continue readingSwift 2.0: API Availability Checking
Swift is all about safety. With the introduction of the automatic API availability checking in Swift 2.0, there is another great new feature that makes your apps more stable.
Continue readingShould You Use Objective-C or Swift?
At the moment Apple has two major programming languages. So should you use Objective-C or Swift?
Continue readingSwift: Generics
Objective-C lacks one very important feature: Generics. Luckily, Swift has this feature. Generics enable you to declare functions, classes and structs that work with different types.
Continue readingConstants In Swift
In Swift there are two types of values: constants and variables. This is very common for a programming language – however, there is one important difference in using constants in Swift.
Continue readingSwift: Access Control
Encapsulation is one of the most important object-oriented design principles: It hides the internal states and functionality of objects. You can achieve this by using the access control features of
Continue readingSwift: Enums
An enum is a data type that has a finite set of possible values. In this post we discuss will the most important aspects of enums in Swift.
Continue readingOptionals in Swift
Every variable can be declared as a so-called optional in Swift. As an optional, the variable is allowed to become nil what is equivalent to the absence of a value.
Continue readingError Handling in Swift 2.0
Swift 2.0 has a new way of error handling. It uses a do-try-catch syntax, which is the replacement for NSError . In this post we will discuss how to use this new syntax.
Continue readingSingletons in Swift
Some people love it, some people hate it – but in the end everybody uses it: the singleton pattern. It is used if just one instance of an object is desired. For example, that could be a database
Continue readingOne Year of Swift
One year ago Apple introduced Swift, which was a very surprising move. What remains after one year?
Continue readingSwift 2.0: defer
defer is another new keyword in Swift. With this statement you can declare clean-up code, that is executed just before the current scope ends. For example, this scope can be a function or a loo...
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