The last article was written around September 2015 and a lot has happened in the world of Swift since then including my world (both of which are for another time/article). However in the last couple of months I have been interviewing developers to work with us and the interesting fact that emerges from the technical […]
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Swift 2.0 – 2.B Open Source
WWDC 2015 had some interesting announcements and the biggest and most applicable / important announcement is that Swift is now 2.0 and going to be Open Source and be available for Linux. Since swift can be used for REPL, it could be used as an alternative for writing and executing scripts (on Linux type distros). […]
Create a Menu driven app with Swift and read Xcode preferences – Part I
In this article we are going to make a swift app for the Mac OSX. This will have no window but instead have a menu item that would be used for interacting with the application. This application shall also read a settings and alter the icon and menu according to the status of that setting
Creating a class from a string in Swift
One thing that Swift does not do very well is dynamism. That is because of the fact that it is a type safe language. So if you were to create a class from a classname i.e. a String, you would get different types of classes depending on the class name. So having a single variable […]
The Xcode Swift Book Giveaway – Xcode 6 Essentials
The new book, Xcode 6 Essentials authored by our very own Jayant Varma has been published by Packt Publishing. To celebrate the same, the publishers have been kind and offered 3 e-books up for offer to you, the readers. If you would like a chance at getting a copy, please leave a comment below. 3 […]
Swift Variables
Basic Explanation Variables are a nothing but tags to something that can hold a value. Say you have a few buckets and you start filling them with fruit. You can visually see the buckets and the fruit in them so you know which one is which. You can label each of the buckets with the […]
Welcome
Welcome to the Learn Swift Blog. There are some amazing websites and developers that have wonderful articles on Swift. Then why do we have another Swift related website? There are two basic reasons for this site. This site would have code samples and talk about code in addition to that, which is in the books […]
