Optionals are one of the major language features of Swift. Understanding what they are and how to use them will be crucial if you want to code in Swift. Hopefully, by the end of this article you’ll get a solid grasp of the foundations and you’ll be a happy swifter…. Read more »
You might have heard that some of the swift native types are being converted from classes to structures. In this article, we’ll explore structures and classes, we’ll talk about values, references, stacks and heaps. Hopefully, by the end of it, you’ll understand the differences between them. Reference Types and Value… Read more »
You probably found yourself in a situation where you had to do a bunch of asynchronous tasks and you just wanted to get notified when all of them finish. There are two easy ways of doing this: DispatchGroup and OperationQueue. We’ll cover them both in this post. The Story We’ll… Read more »
There are more ways than one to do concurrent operations on iOS. In this article, we’ll cover how to use Operations and OperationQueue to execute concurrent operations. There’s a lot to be said (and written) about concurrency on iOS and I don’t really want to bore you to death by… Read more »
If you started your iOS development career in Objective-C, especially pre ARC Objective-C, you’re probably very familiar with the above-mentioned concepts. If you started with Swift, some of them might be a bit murky, hopefully, by the end of this post, you’ll get to know them a bit better. A… Read more »
Generics is one powerful feature of swift that allows us to work with generic types. In this article, we’ll cover what generics are, and how to use them in your project. Generics You must have come across the term ‘generics’ when working in swift. They’re those funky things in angle… Read more »
