In the last post, we looked at the basics of optionals in Swift, what they were and how to use them. In this post, I want to build on that core knowledge by looking at optional chaining.
Issue 14 – December 3rd 2015
Swift Developments is a hand-curated newsletter containing a weekly selection of the best links, videos, tools and tutorials for people interested in designing and developing their own apps using Swift. Comment I hope you’ve had a good week. I just wanted to mention before we dive in that I’ve posted some of the back issues […]
Optionals in Swift
The Swift programming language brings a number of new features that make developing apps quicker, easier and safer than ever before. One of these new features is *Optionals*. They’re everywhere in Swift but *can* be confusing for people who are new to the language and frustrating to others who don’t understand them fully.
The Swift Numeric Data Types
As you may know, Swift is a type-safe language and good understanding of the data types that are available is therefore critically important. In this post, we’re going to start looking at these in detail with a look at the numeric data types available in Swit.
What Hardware Will You Need to Develop iOS Apps?
Before you can get going with iOS development there are a couple of hardware requirements that you need to satisfy. In this post, we’ll take a look at those requirements and investigate the cheapest way for those new to iOS Development to get started.
Issue 12 – November 19th 2015
Swift Developments is a hand-curated newsletter containing a weekly selection of the best links, videos, tools and tutorials for people interested in designing and developing their own apps using Swift. Comment So, it’s back in the saddle this week after a few days away and it sounds like the overriding response to the new iPad […]