When I first started working with enumerations and switch statements in Swift, I found them immediately easy to use. I also appreciated the usefulness of being able to add properties and methods to an enumeration. Very nice! However there were a number of subtleties that eluded me initially, and took

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Capabilities Work With Native Swift Types > Structs, enums, and classes are all now able to take advantage of customizable, automatic encoding and decoding functionality in Swift 4. Swift 4 adds new protocols, Encodable and Decodable (and for convenience, a typealias, Codable, defined as Encodable & Decodable) that

In Swift, a tuple is a parenthesized list of two or more elements of any type. For example, (0.5, "foo") is a tuple where the first element is a Double, and the second is a String. One of the key benefits tuples provide is that they make

iOS apps commonly store and retrieve JSON data via REST APIs. Consequently, many development teams initially spend some time formulating an approach for decoding model objects from JSON, and (usually) vice versa. And due diligence requires sifting through a substantial number of frameworks, both in Objective-C and Swift, that provide