Swift Weekly - Issue #22

Enhance your app / service with a photo editor. It’s fully customizable and SDKs are available for iOS and HTML5.

A collection of Swift tools to generate Swift code (enums for your assets, storyboards, Localizable.strings, …)

A Swift and Objective-C dependency visualizer. It analyzes your project and visualizes your classes and its relations, making it really easy to see how tight your classes are coupled.

Dropbox have released and open-sourced the latest version of their iOS SDK in Swift.

Caramel is a cross-platform module for building server applications in Swift.

PhoneNumberKit is a new Swift dynamic framework for parsing, validating and formatting phone numbers.

A simple CoreData query language for Swift and Objective-C.

Cereal is a serialization framework built for Swift. Its intended as a substitution for NSCoding to allow advanced Swift features.

Eureka is an elegant iOS form builder written in Swift 2.

RandomKit is a Swift framework that makes random data generation simple and easy

Another article about SIL and especially its not-so-basic blocks.

A while ago the folks at Sunset Lake Software wrote about the planned rewrite of their robotics software in Swift. This time they write about what they learned from it.

The Swift Intermediate Language (SIL) is a new high-level IR to model the semantics of Swift at a higher level. This article gives an introduction to SIL.

Colin Drake wrote about his experience writing an observable pattern implementation in Swift.

Mateusz Matoszko writes about the @noescape attribute which was introduced in Swift 1.2.

If you ever find yourself having to call C functions inside Swift, this post about CFunction Pointers by Marcin Małysz has you covered.

When and how to use enums in Swift? This is a detailed practical overview by Benedikt Terhechte of all the possibilities enums can offer you.

An introduction to optionals by Ayaka Nonaka. Ayaka started writing for anyone who wants to dive into learning Swift, so you might also want to take a look at her other posts.