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One of my readers, Andrew VanWagoner, decided to put together a short tutorial that follows up the iOS 8 Swift Tutorial I put together last month. So I'm sharing it here with you all! Andrew is a Senior Software Engineer working for Adobe in Lehi, Utah. You can find out more about Andrew at his site, http://thetalecrafter.com/ or follow him…
Swift Scripts From The Command Line This post updated for Xcode 6.1 One of the great features of swift is it's ability to be used on the command line. It's actually really easy to do, and I'll show you how to make an executable Swift file in this tutorial. First let's create a new Swift file. In any text editor,…
This post updated September 16 for Xcode 6 GM Let's say you're working on an iOS app where you need to pass data to a server as JSON. Just about every app that interacts with a server does this, and almost always there is a login API call. For the purposes of this tutorial, I'm first going to set up…
fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value Have you seen this yet working with Swift yet? If so, you're not alone. In this post I'm going to dig in to what this means, and explain a bit about optionals in Swift. For those of you who are experienced programmers and have arrived at this page trying to…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 17, 2015 In parts 1 through 6 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from iTunes inside of them. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part 1…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 16, 2015 In parts 1 through 5 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from iTunes inside of them. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part 1…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 16, 2015 In parts 1 through 4 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from iTunes inside of them. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part 1…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 16, 2015 In parts 1, 2, and 3 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from iTunes inside of them. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 16, 2015 In parts 1 & 2 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from iTunes inside of them. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part 1…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 8.3.1, as of April 17, 2017 In part 1 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some text inside of them. If you haven’t read that yet, give it a read here. For this section, we’re…