Swift 5.5 - Fresh Beginning

Swift 5.5

A collection of 6 posts

How to Convert Existing Async Code to Use async-await using Swift and iOS

How to Convert Existing Async Code to Use async-await using Swift and iOS

Software engineers are expected to spend a lot of time on improving and modernizing the codebase. If the codebase hasn't been given enough attention, it's possible that the codebase might get deprecated soon and will have undesirable consequences for production users. In today's blog post, we will see how to

AsyncSequence in Swift

Apple introduced the AsyncSequence in Swift 5.5. This is one of the major features released in this Swift version to improve the Swift concurrency. In today's post, we are going to take a look at what AsyncSequence are and how you can make your own custom async sequence in

Wrapping Existing Async and Closure Based code in async-await structure (Advanced Swift Topic)

Wrapping Existing Async and Closure Based code in async-await structure (Advanced Swift Topic)

If you haven't yet read couple of my posts that introduce a new async-await construct in Swift, below are the links you can follow to know more about it How to use async/await in Swift using ExamplesUsing async/await APIs in Swift 5.5. Examples of using async await

Running async network operations in parallel on iOS using async-await

Running async network operations in parallel on iOS using async-await

Running parallel network operations on iOS was not always a smooth process. I remember that at my previous jobs, developers opted to use either third-party libraries or DispatchGroup to trigger parallel requests. These solutions had their own pros and cons. Using DispatchGroup in the code was tedious and its block-based

How to use WebSockets on iOS using Swift

How to use WebSockets on iOS using Swift

From Wikipedia, WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection. Although very useful on Web using JavaScript, we don't use it a lot on iOS platform. From MDN, The WebSocket API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way

Async / Await in Swift

Async / Await in Swift

Apple introduced the concept of async/await in Swift 5.5 and announced it in the WWDC21 session. Today, we are going to see it in action and how you can leverage it to write readable async code in your app. Please note that async/await is only available in