A new talk introducing advanced techniques with the Objective C runtime and assessing their relevance in an increasingly Swifty world.

How to upload and download images from a Swift 3 iOS 10 app with Alamofire 4 using PHP 7 on the server... (more…)

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Swift has built-in support for bridging native strings to C strings, but this doesn’t include transparent bridging of arrays of strings to arrays of C strings. Here I discuss an internal helper function the Swift standard library uses for this purpose.

Covers value and reference semantics, advantage of value types in Swift and how to use value and reference types in designing applications... (more…)