Advanced Swift - Fresh Beginning

Async / Await in Swift

Apple introduced the concept of async/await in Swift 5.5 and announced it in WWDC21 session. Today, we are going to see it in action and how you can leverage it to write readable async code in your app. Please note that async/await is only available in Swift

ARC

Deep dive into Swift memory management with ARC

It's been a while since my last post. For past few months I was busy with work, personal life and lot of things happening outside it so couldn't really commit to writing another article. However, I am back now and going to write about Swift and its memory management quirks.

NSNotifications

Implementing custom NotificationCenter in Swift

NSNotificationCenter is a classic API on iOS. It's used so that classes can register for notifications by name and execute the function/block whenever the notification with same name is fired somewhere else in the project. Today, we will see how to implement NSNotificationCenter API in Swift from scratch. Here

UICollectionView

Tutorial - Creating Programmatic UICollectionView in Swift

Creating a UICollectionView could be stressful - As compared to dealing with UITableView. But things don't have to be this way for so long. Every time I have to add a CollectionView in the app, I end up spending long time trying to figure out what did I do last

UITableView

How to add HeaderView and FooterView to UITableView

Recently I was playing with support to add header and footer view to UITableView. However, task wasn't as easy as adding UITableViewCells to the table view. Header and Footer views acts slightly different than regular table view cells. Today we are going to see how to add self-sizing (self-sizing is

Minesweeper

Rewriting a Minesweeper - Part 3

Welcome to part 3 of the Minesweeper game. Today we will see logic behind some of the core and bonus features in the game. Highlighting tilesTiles highlighting is triggered when user taps on one of the tiles which is not mine. This triggers a sort of chain reaction to uncover

Minesweeper

Rewriting a Minesweeper - Part 2

Happy new year to all. I guess as I am getting old, I am not feeling enthusiastic enough about new years. There is one thing I am excited about though. Writing a rewriting Minesweeper game in Swift. Yesterday was quite a productive day in terms of my progress. Here's the

Minesweeper

Rewriting a Minesweeper - Part 1

I am going to being this series of post on how I found my 4 year old Minesweeper game project written in Objective-C and process to start converting it into Swift. My goals for this project are as follows: Make sure to bring this project in stable state - As

iOS

Custom Operators in Swift with Generics

Swift introduced us a new era of custom operators. Unlike Objective-C, it will allow us to define our own operators and perform operator overloading if necessary. Although I haven't come across such use case, custom operators can provide excellent clarity and flexibility down the line. Let's start with how you