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This week I had to install the Xcode again. But the font was to small by default. So to change the font I had to: CMD + , Go to Font & Colors Make sure to press CMD+A to select all possible text types. Then change the font size from the picker abov...
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My leisurely journey into getting to know Swift by reading and then making notes to myself in my blog continues, and this weekend I encountered defer. As I was reading about Swift I did keep wondering when something like try (it has try), catch (it h...
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(Reader beware: The use of @ doesn't constitute links to Twitter handles or Hashnode mentions π€) Attributes A Swift attribute attributes a declaration or type. Seriously. Merriam Webster defines an attribute as a quality, character, or characteristi...
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Hello my people, Leo Here. Today I'll show you how to set a dynamic size of a UICollectionViewCell. It's simple but require a little bit of lifecycle understanding. You will manipule the willTransition method inside your UIViewController to achieve ...
Some may be happy to know that the frequency of these little notes to myself may reduce real soon, as I'm sort of caught up with my notes, mostly, and I'm unlikely to pick up the book that I'm reading for a couple or so days now I'm used to the idea ...
Structures A Struct is a Swift language construct that can be used to encapsulate state and behaviour. It's the recommended way of storing state and modeling behaviour. What's the alternative you ask? Classes. The two are similar in many ways but als...
Although I read up on it a few days back, it was only this evening that I fired up Emacs (well of course I'm testing Swift with Emacs, what did you think I'd do?!?) and dabbled with some code to really get a feel for how casting works in Swift. Swift...
This post is very much a case of me writing it down to try and get it all straight in my head, and to make sure it sticks. The other day I was reading about Swift's types and type-equality checks, and as I'd expect from plenty of other languages I've...
I'm going to file this one under "it seems really unnecessary, but it's also kinda cool". While reading up about protocols the book I'm reading introduced the ExpressibleBy*Literal protocols, where the * is one of a number of obvious literals. For ex...
I'm going to file this one under "it makes perfect sense, but I don't think it aids in making the code readable" -- something which I'm finding is a bit of a theme with Swift. In Swift self gets used and gets used in a way you'd expect from many othe...
