Category: Swift

• Apple TV vs Roku

  An Apple TV is a small-sized black plastic box that connects to your television set via an HDMI cable and connects to your home wireless network. It gives users access to Internet videos from the comfort of their homes. It has a three buttoned remote control and streaming is enhanced extensively from Netflix to youtube […]

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  February 12, 2020

  Android, Development, macOS, Programming, Roku, Swift, tvOS

  Apple, AppleTV, cost, Development, difference, features, Roku, TV, vs

• Types of URLSession tasks in iOS

  Within a URLSession, we create tasks that currently upload data to server or retrieve data from server. The URLSession API provides three types of tasks. Data tasks: Data tasks send and receive data using NSData objects. They are intended for short and often interactive requests to server. Upload tasks: Upload tasks are similar to data […]

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  April 12, 2019

  iOS, Swift

  data task, downlod, ios, upload, URLSession

• Limitations of URL shared session in iOS

  There are quite a few limitations while using shred URL session and they are as follows: You can’t obtain data incrementally as it arrives from the server. You can’t customize the connection behaviour. Your ability to perform authentication is limited. You can’t perform background downloads and uploads when your app isn’t running. If our app […]

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  April 12, 2019

  iOS, Swift

  authentication, cache, cookie, download, ios, upload, URL shared session

• URL shared session in iOS

  For basic requests, URLSession class provides a shared singleton object to perform default behaviour for creating tasks. We can use this object to fetch data to memory with few lines of code.We don’t create a shared session like other URLSessions, we can access this directly by using its property.    

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  April 12, 2019

  iOS, Swift

  shared, URL session

• Types of URLSession in iOS

  URLSessions are responsible for sending and receiving  HTTP requests. Tasks within the given URL system share a common configuration object, which defines connection behaviour like maximum number of allowed connections, whether to allow connections to cellular network and so on. iOS provides us with the following types of URLSessions for us to enable data transfer. […]

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  April 12, 2019

  iOS, Swift

  background session, default session, ephemeral session, HTTP requests, shared session, URLSession

• URLSession in iOS

  The URLSession class and related classes provide an API for downloading data from and uploading data to endpoint indicated by URLs. The API allows our app to perform background downloads when app isn’t running or it is in suspended state.

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  April 11, 2019

  iOS, Swift

  ios, URLSession

• How to capitalise first letter of String in Swift?

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  April 10, 2019

  iOS, Swift

  capitalize, dropFirst(), string, Swift

• Type ‘NSNotification.Name’ has no member ‘UIResponder’ Error iOS

  Delete the text NSNotification.Name. written before the UIResponder to remove the error.  

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  April 9, 2019

  iOS, iOS Errors, Learning Swift Series, Swift

  error, ios, NSNotification, UIResponder

• ‘characters’ is unavailable: Please use String directly Error iOS

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  April 9, 2019

  iOS, iOS Errors, Swift

  characters, error, ios, string

• Data types in Swift

  Swift provides us with both built-in and user defined data types. The most common data types available with Swift are as follows: Integer Float Double Boolean Optional Tuple Character String

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  April 9, 2019

  iOS, Learning Swift Series, Swift

  boolean, character, data type, double, float, integer, optional, string, tuple