Top iOS Articles by Readaggregator Channel (Dec 2017). 🎉

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1. Strings in Swift 4

Long read written by Ole about String architecture details in Swift.

Strings in Swift 4 - Ole Begemann

2.@objc and dynamic

As you possible know, in Swift 4 dynamic doesn’t imply @objc by default anymore — now it’s just a dynamic dispatch and nothing about Objective-C visibility. So in this post Greg compares these two flags — what are defferences between them and which one is slower. 👍

@objc and dynamic - Swift Unboxed

3. 31 Million Client Registration Files Leaked by Personalized Keyboard Developer.

A bit scary news for users who was using Ai.Type custom keyboard!

Was leaked about 31 millions sensitive and identifiable user’s data: phone number, full name of the owner, device name and model, mobile network name, SMS number, screen resolution and so so on.

Don’t use custom keyboards anymore. 😬

Virtual Keyboard Developer Leaked 31 Million of Client Records

4. A Quick Tip For String Performance

A quick String performance win. Must read who’s going to write own string parser.

A string can be backed by a Swift String or NSString. By appending an empty string, we force it to be backed by a Swift String.

A Quick Tip For String Performance

5. Fastlane introducing fastlane Swift support

It’s time to forget Ruby :) Fastlane has introduced the Swift support (in the beta now). 🎉

6. Patterns for Working With Associated Types

I think many of us have wondered about Associated Types in Swift — why it’s so painful to work with, why we can’t store it as a property and so on.

So, here’s an article with a full explanation of these problems and the available ways of working with it:

Patterns for Working With Associated Types

7. How to import a C library in Swift using the Swift Package Manager

This guy doesn’t write bad articles! This time Ole talks about the approach of importing a C library into your Swift code via SPM.

I understand it’s not an everyday task, but I’m sure it’s interesting to know though. And that book he talks about is really good one IMO. 🤔

How to import a C library in Swift using the Swift Package Manager - Ole Begemann

8. A complete list of articles on Unit Testing with Swift from 2017

A great collection of resources about Unit Testing! Do promise yourself to start writing unit tests next year! 😎

A complete list of articles on Unit Testing with Swift from 2017

9. Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad & Mac Apps to Create One User Experience

Apple combines iOS and macOS apps. It’s a good chance to improve Mac App Store. And I hope you use adaptive layout a lot ;)

Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad & Mac Apps to Create One User Experience

10. iPhone X home button

Let’s deal how a new iPhone X home indicator works under the hood. A bit of reverse engineering and Objective-C :)

Sash Zats - iPhone X home button

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