Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
One of those difficult things for even experienced developers to understand is Automatic Reference Counting, or ARC. It is how Swift manages and conserves memory automatically. Take a look at the Exercise file. I have a playground in this project with two classes. One is a pizza topping. One is a Pizza. Look at the …
There's many ways to handle errors in Swift. For some errors, using throws is a great way to handle errors without crashing the system. Download the exercise file. You'll find a project with an embedded playground. While there's a lot better ways to do this, I'll use an example of a function coffee(name:) that finds …
We've had another change to the Swift compiler that was brought to my attention by an astute reader. I was aware of it, and you'll notice I even used it in the last few posts, but I really should have warned people about it, and got it fixed. Back in my post on Adding an …
