KVO vs Notification Center

One-to-Many?

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I’ve previously covered the Observer Pattern in Swift, but there seems to be two implementations in the iOS SDK -

• NotificationCenter
• KVO

So which is what, and what might be the best approach for your application?

If you would like the background to this, please do take a look at my Observer Pattern article.

Prerequisites:

You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application in Swift, or be able to code in Swift Playgrounds.

Terminology:

NotificationCenter: A notification dispatch mechanism that enables the broadcast of information to registered observers

Dynamic property: An interface for a stored variable that updates an external property of a view

NotificationCenter

Notification Center enables the broadcast of information to any registered observers. This means that a single event can…