Swift Weekly - Issue #85

One of the interesting additions to Swift 4 is the Codable protocol and the machinery around it. Mike Ash discusses what it is and how it works today.

Tom Lokhorst gives a few examples of how you can use strongly typed identifiers in Swift instead of using strings.

Animations are a great way to explain the functionality of our apps through motion, and to delight our users. Adding animations in the right places can really make a UI look a lot more polished and nice. John Sundell takes a look at how SpriteKit can be a great tool for creating certain kinds of animations.

Soroush Khanlou with an example of how to refactor your code.

If you are an iOS developer and you haven’t been hidden in the middle of nowhere for the last three years, you’ve probably heard of Realm. Ennio Masi isolates the Realm layer of his app for a better app architecture.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field in Computer Science that is starting to get really important in the mobile world. Martin Mitrevski helps you get started with the NSLinguisticTagger class.

In this article, Jonathan Samudio explains how Reactive Native and Swift can communicate with each other.

Daniel Steinberg talks about functional programming.

FaceCropper - Crop faces, inside of your image, with iOS 11 Vision api.

ARuler - Mesure distance using apple ARKit

RealmContent - Light Realm-powered content management system

SwiftQ - Distributed Task Queue

Commander - Compose beautiful command line interfaces in Swift