In Swift 3.0, the var keyword in function parameters is being removed. Apparently there was too much confusion of var parameters with the functionality of inout parameters. For more information, see the Swift blog announcement, Swift Evolution proposal and swift-evolution-announce post. If you had…
In the previous post we created a dynamic framework. Now we’re going to share this code with the world, by turning it into a CocoaPod and uploading it to cocoapods.org: First, drag your whole project folder to Terminal, and create a podspec. In Terminal, type:…
Have you ever written some Swift code in iOS that you’ve thought, this could be way useful in other projects? One solution is to set up a Cocoa Touch framework – edit your source code in one place, compile your framework…
2015 has been another great year. Under moniker Interactive Coconut I spent a lot of time working on new app Grabble Words, which launched at the end of the year. Technically Grabble Words delved into new areas such as Sprite Kit,…
After six months of work, Grabble Words launched this week – hooray! But – I’ve just discovered it contains an important bug – inviting Facebook friends to install the app doesn’t work – boo… It all stemmed from a misunderstanding of the Facebook…
Flash. The ‘f’ word. At least it feels like a dirty word right? Flash really spiralled out of fashion since Steve Jobs’ famous “Thoughts on Flash” open letter five years ago. Wired posted an article last month titled “Flash.Must.Die”, the…
There are the obvious technical differences in Swift compared to other languages such as ActionScript – optionals, strict data typing, namespacing, syntax, etc. What I find interesting though is where there aren’t technical differences, but there are differences in approach,…
I was just setting up a class with a designated initializer and a convenience initializer to be able to pass in initializing properties beyond the defaults: Great, all good so far. But sometimes a Font will be instantiated with a…
This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. There are some changes in Swift 2.0 to Optional Function parameters, so I thought I should revisit this blog post. For info just on…
This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. This week func parameters were simplified in Swift 2.0. The hash symbol was deprecated for specifying a parameter should be explicitly named, and the rules were simplified concerning global functions vs…
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