Threading in Swift Simply Explained

Using Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) to speed up your app

Gabriel Lewis
Aug 31, 2018 · 3 min read
Photo by Oleg Magni on Unsplash

Threading in iOS can be difficult to understand if you’re coming from other platforms, or if you are a beginner at Swift. Here’s a few tips to get you off on the right foot with threading, by using GCD.

First a precursor, threading is all about managing how work is prioritized in your…

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