Swift 4.0 - Fresh Beginning

Swift 4.0

A collection of 6 posts

Using Codable Protocol in iOS to Decode Complex JSON Objects

A while back, I wrote a blog post about using Codable to encode/decode JSON payload while sending to or receiving from the server. However, I often find myself in situations where having straightforward examples with a single complex JSON is easier to understand how I can use it for

Architecting Asynchronous Image Download and Caching in Swift

Architecting Asynchronous Image Download and Caching in Swift

Few months ago, I worked on a side-project that involved writing image downloader and cacher from scratch without using a third-party library. Today, in this blog post I am going to summarize how I built this framework from scratch with details technical explanation. Before I started working on the project,

Using Codable Protocol in Swift 4.1

Swift 4 Codable protocol to decode and encode json data and model objects. Explained with examples.

How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Swift and iOS

Regular Expressions

How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Swift and iOS

Regular expressions are a powerful language feature. It allows you to find matches, extract text, or even replace strings in the given input of text. Like many developers, I've had a fair share of fighting with them eventually leading to a loss of confidence and productivity. Every time I need

Using Swift variables in Objective-C : Swift 4 Edition

Today I ran into weird problem which prompted me to write this blog post on Objective-C and Swift interconnectedness. Before Swift 4 came along, the sure way to access Swift variables in Objective-C was to inherit class from NSObject (Swift structs cannot be used in the Objective-C) and prefix it

Swift 4 - Multiline string literals support

Multi-line support in Swift 4. Now add multi line support with double quotes using Swift 4 and Xcode 9. Tutorial with example on adding support.