Swift

Learn more and get better in Swift using this list of Swift blog posts, tutorials, tips, and tricks.

Custom subscripts in Swift explained with code examples

Custom subscripts in Swift allow you to write shortcuts to elements from collections or sequences and can be defined within ...
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NSFetchedResultsController extension to observe relationship changes

Apple provides us with great classes like the NSFetchedResultsController to interact with Core Data databases in our apps. The API ...
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Testing private methods and variables in Swift

Testing private methods and variables is often something we run into when writing tests for our applications. You could think ...
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How to mock Alamofire and URLSession requests in Swift

Mocking data requests that are triggered by either Alamofire or URLSession is something we all run into when we start ...
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Creating a command line tool using the Swift Package Manager

A command-line tool can be very useful for automating common tasks to boost developer productivity. While developing iOS applications we ...
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Authentication with signed requests in Alamofire 5

With more than 30k stars on Github, you can tell that Alamofire is a popular framework to use for iOS ...
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Swift Package framework creation in Xcode

Swift Package Manager is Apple's answer for managing dependencies. We're all familiar with tools like CocoaPods and Carthage but it's ...
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Unique values in Swift: Removing duplicates from an array

Removing duplicates to get unique values out of an array can be a common task to perform. Languages like Ruby ...
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JSON Parsing in Swift explained with code examples

JSON parsing in Swift is a common thing to do. Almost every app decodes JSON to show data in a ...
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Ranges in Swift explained with code examples

Ranges in Swift allow us to select parts of Strings, collections, and other types. They're the Swift variant of NSRange ...
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EXC_BAD_ACCESS crash error: Understanding and solving it

Building apps all goes well in the beginning. You're developing an app from scratch, it's stable, and runs perfectly fine ...
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SwiftLee 2019 in review: Top Swift Development blog posts

You know it's been a great year if you have the feeling that it went really fast. After looking back ...
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