Reachability for iOS Swift Applications

Making your user happy

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Reachability has been around for a while as Apple Sample Code that can monitor the network status of your user’s device

Ashley Mills rewrote reachability for Swift. This is fantastic, but how can we make this class usable and testable for our needs in any target project.

This tutorial will give you a hand!

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Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

Prerequisites:

• Be able to produce a “Hello, World!” iOS application
• Have some understanding of Unit testing
• Be willing to make the user experience that bit better

Terminology

Reachability: A sample application demonstrates how to use the System Configuration framework to monitor the network state of an iOS device

Linking reachability

You should have a single view application set up. Now the easiest way to set up reachability is to download the project from reachability, and then you can simple drag and drop the…