Day 1: Difference between keywords static & class in Swift?

Max
Jan 22, 2018
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static and class keywords can be used in front of method and properties in Swift.

Both of them associate a method to a class, rather than an instance of a class.

class methods can be overridden by the subclasses, but static methods cannot be overridden by the subclasses.

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Max

Senior iOS Engineer | Swift | ObjectiveC | SwiftUI | Combine |