Swift
Learn more and get better in Swift using this list of Swift blog posts, tutorials, tips, and tricks.
AsyncThrowingStream and AsyncStream explained with code examples
AsyncThrowingStream and AsyncStream are part of the concurrency framework introduced in Swift 5.5 due to SE-314. Async streams allow you ...
Using MetricKit to monitor user data like launch times
The MetricKit framework allows us to collect all kinds of data from our end users, including launch times and hang ...
AnyObject, Any, and any: When to use which?
AnyObject and Any got a new option any as introduced in SE-355, making it harder for us developers to know ...
How to use the #available attribute in Swift
Marking pieces of code as available or unavailable per platform or version is required in the ever-changing landscape of app ...
Self-documenting code in Swift to increase readability
Self-documenting code helps explain a piece of code to other developers on a project without the need for actual documentation ...
Tasks in Swift explained with code examples
Tasks in Swift are part of the concurrency framework introduced at WWDC 2021. A task allows us to create a ...
Guard statements in Swift explained with code examples
Guard statements in Swift allow us to implement checks into our code that prevents the current scope from continuing. When ...
Reflection in Swift: How Mirror works
Reflection in Swift allows us to use the Mirror API to inspect and manipulate arbitrary values at runtime. Even though ...
Creating an App Update Notifier using Combine and async/await
An app update-notifier promotes a new app update to your users. Using a notifier will get better adoption rates with ...
Composition vs. Inheritance: code architecture solutions explained in Swift
Composition and inheritance are both fundamental programming techniques when working in object-oriented programming languages. You've likely been using both patterns ...
Property Wrappers in Swift explained with code examples
Property Wrappers in Swift allow you to extract common logic in a distinct wrapper object. This new technique appeared at ...
Async await in Swift explained with code examples
Async await is part of the new structured concurrency changes that arrived in Swift 5.5 during WWDC 2021. Concurrency in ...