Starting an iOS project involves making a key decision: choosing the language for the development. When it comes to native mobile app development, there are two possibilities: Objective-C and Swift. What are the differences between them? What are pros and cons of each one? And, finally, which language will be better for your project?
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You must’ve heard by now that Swift has been open sourced on December 3rd, marking it one of the most important dates in the history of Apple’s developer community. Along with Linux-compatible compiler and standard libraries, Apple released a native package manager, platform-agnostic Foundation, libDispatch and XCTest.
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With Swift 2.0 already out, most of the community is already familiar with the major new features, including reflection, error handling and Objective-C generics, which we’ve covered on our blog before. But the latest Swift version includes many other lesser-known functionalities, some of which I would like to discuss today.
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With the introduction of Swift at WWDC one year ago, came something equally revolutionary for iOS and OS X developers – playgrounds. Not only are they a great tool for rapid prototyping, but, more importantly, they’re the best tool for showcasing your work, by taking advantage of rich documentation and ready-to-play-with code snippets.
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Everything You Should Know About Error Handling in Swift 2.0 (but Were Too Afraid to Ask)
Radosław Szeja
The first time I saw error handling on WWDC's Platform State of the Union, I thought "here we go again... exceptions". It quickly became clear that Swift's error handling isn't the same as Objective-C exceptions. So what does this error handling look like? Where are the differences? Let’s dive into it!
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Unless you spent last week on the moon, you must have heard about the Apple WWDC conference. There was lots of interesting news both for end users and developers, among which was the release of Swift as Open Source. Just fot you, we gathered all essential news into a digestible blog post.
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Today there's a substantial number of people working at Netguru, especially at the HQ, in Poznań. Together with the Netguru iOS team we have addressed the problem of quick and easy room reservations for calls and meetings. We developed the Roomguru app for managing your meetings in Google calendars. And it’s open source!
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Recently, we’ve developed our first Swift app, with a few folks involved, and most of them new to Swift. The problem I want to describe emerged pretty quickly and there was only one way to deal with it - outlining our own Swift style guide.
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Starting a new project for iOS? Use Apple's new language, Swift, not Objective-C
Joseph Francis Marsico
Should startups build new iOS MVP projects in Objective-C or Apple's new language, Swift? When trying to answer this question, it’s helpful to understand a little bit about the history of Objective-C and Swift.
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