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Keywords and Terminology

Protocol: A blueprint on methods, properties and requirements to suit a piece of functionality

The problem

Protocols are great in Swift! Absolutely fantastic!

However you may want to use a protocol which has optional requirements — when you conform to a protocol only some of the functionality is required.

This would be great, as you should probably make more use of protocols than you currently are…

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This article has been developed using Xcode 11.5, and Swift 5.2.4

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Keywords and Terminology

Array: an ordered series of objects which are the same type

The problem

It is possible to “run off the end” of an array. This means that that you can get a nasty runtime crash which will throw your user out of the nice iOS App experience that they had.

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Prerequisites:

• You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application in Swift.
• This article is a continuation of an existing article about codable with nested JSON

Terminology:

JSON: JavaScript Object Notation, a lightweight format for storing and transporting data

Decoding JSON

Decoding JSON is good, right?

I remember creating an article about Using Codable with Nested JSON and we can easily test JSON decoding yet it is missing…

Before we start

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The opportunity

You know what, I’ve previously had a fun old time creating a Tip calculator in SwiftUI. Yes, there are some points for improvements (thanks all commenters on all my articles).

The completed project

A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architecture pattern that consolidates functionality and business logic in such a way that services can be injected into view controllers for use.

This type of architecture can leverage dependency injection as a means to achieve a clear separation of concerns.

Prerequisites:

You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application, or a Playground to run Swift code

This article avoids Dependency Injection, but you should be aware of what that is, and make up your own mind whether that is relevant for your application.

Terminology:

AppDelegate: Effectively the root object…

Before we start

If you are writing functions, you might be asked whether the code is a pure function or not. You’ll need to know, and you’ll need to be able to describe what it is. In steps this guide to help you out.

Before we start

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This article has been developed using Xcode 13, and Swift 5.5.

Keywords and Terminology

Idempotent: An operation that produces the same results if executed multiple times

Pure Function: A function where the return value is only determined by its input values, without observable side effects

The theory

A pure function does not produce any side effects…

We can add enums within enums, or even within a Struct or a Class in order to make our software design come alive.

This article will take us through just that.

The example

During 2020 the UK experienced various lockdowns. During some of these the number of acceptable activities for people resident in the UK was limited.

Therefore I’ve created a example right here:

The issue

There isn’t a massive issue here. If you want to use these enum in various places within your module the default (internal) access control would not be an issue.

But what if you want (and you should)…

Before we start

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This article has been developed using Xcode 13, and Swift 5.5.

Keywords and Terminology

UIButton: A control that responds to user interactions

UILabel: A view used by UIKit that displays on or more lines of text

This article

Background

Experimenting with user interfaces? That sounds like fun!

We should know that CABasicAnimation is a concrete representation of a CAAnimation.

The Project

I’ve created a project with several different animated buttons on them. They’re fantastic! If you want to take a closer look, I’d advise you take a look at the accompanying repo.

Adding a target to each of the buttons

Each of these buttons have been added to…