Singletons 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 readingOutsource your UITableViewDataSource!
It is very common that the controller of an UITableView is also its data source. This is the number one reason why view controllers tend to become very massive. Outsourcing the data source to an object
Continue readingOne Year of Swift
One year ago Apple introduced Swift, which was a very surprising move. What remains after one year?
Continue readingThe 10 Best Xcode Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can make your life better – or at least your workflow quicker. Here’s a list of the ten best ones:
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...
Continue readingSwift 2: guard
In Swift 2, there is a new keyword for handling the control-flow of a block of code. It guarantees, that a specific condition holds true for the further code. Otherwise, it ensures that the following
Continue readingProperties in Swift
You are using properties all the time in Swift development. In this post you will learn all the basics.
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