Swift

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

Compiler Diagnostic Directives using a hashtag in Swift

The Swift standard library brings quite some compiler diagnostic directives by default. Although this might not ring a bell at ...
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Where usage in Swift

Where is a powerful keyword within Swift to easily filter out values. It can be used in many different variants ...
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Typed notifications using custom extensions

The Swift API contains a lot of notifications sent out by the system like NSManagedObjectContextObjectsDidChange in Core Data or the ...
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Printing data requests using a custom URLProtocol

Almost all apps contain some kind of data requests. Printing data requests could sometimes be handy for debugging purposes. This ...
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Controlling Progress children by adding remove

Controlling Progress children by default makes it only easy to add children to a Progress instance, but removing is not ...
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Share Extension UI Tests written in Swift

UI Tests are a great tool to validate your application. It is easy to create them for your main application, ...
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Updating to Swift 4.1

Swift 4.1 is released on the 29th of March and will be shipped with Xcode 9.3. Although it's a minor ...
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Optional protocol methods in Swift

In Swift it's kind of unsupported to implemented optional protocol methods. You can, which is ugly, use the @objc syntax: ...
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OptionSet usage in Swift like NS_OPTIONS

Swift 3.0 introduced the OptionSet protocol after renaming from OptionSetType. It is a Swift alternative to the well-known and often used ...
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The start of a new blog

Hi there! After thinking a lot of starting my own blog, I've finally made the decision to create one! As ...
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