Swift
language has been around in the mobile app development industry
for a while. According to Upwork study, tech companies are increasingly looking
for developers who know how to develop mobile application in Swift.
According
to RedMonk “In a world in which it’s incredibly difficult to break into the Top
25 of language rankings, let alone the Top 10, Swift managed the chore in less
than four years.”
Since
Swift is more mature and facile, mobile app
developers are planning to use Swift for server-side
development also. It’s been four years; Apple introduced Swift to replace
Objective-C. But to make these things smooth, Apple launched its new version
i.e. Swift 4.0.
This
new version pinpoint towards an increasing dependency on data and machine
learning to build contextual mobile application that offer productivity through
pro-activity. And to offer a 360-degree view of the IT services have become a mainstay
for mobile app development management. This rise in app intelligence to offer
customer experience will continue to ensure Apple invests heavily in the
enterprise.
Benefits of Swift 4.0 in Mobile App Development
For mobile app
developers, Swift 4.0 is a major release as it contains a
variety of features that let them write simpler and short code. You’ll be
pleased to know that this new language is compatible with your existing Swift
code, so you don’t need to rewrite the same code for again and again.
Let’s
take a look at Swift 4.0 more closely
Swift
4 has introduced a new Codable protocol that lets mobile app developers
serialize and deserialize custom data types without writing any special code
and without losing actual value types. Even they can choose how data to be
serialized with the help of a classic property list format or even JSON.
In
Swift 4, you don’t need to encode all the properties of your data type as it
automatically encodes
all the properties inside the data type.
In
Swift, mobile app developers need to add “\n” inside the strings to add line
breaks while writing multi-line strings. But in Swift 4, multi-line string
literal syntax let developers add line breaks freely and use quote marks
without escaping.
Difference
between Swift and Objective-C
After
the announcement of Apple that Swift is better than its predecessor for iOS
coding, development community started focusing on it instead of objective-C.
There are various differences between Swift and objective-C, let’s discuss one
deeply.
· Objective-C references a property dynamically
rather than directly. These references, known as key paths, are distinct from
direct property accesses because they don’t actually read or write the value,
they just stash it away for use later on.
·
Objective-C, which has been in the
field from a long time, holds simpler syntax and easy to understand features
which makes it user-friendly.
·
Swift provides comprehensible codes and
gives a much neater look, providing much more readability.
·
Swift offer features like providing the
range for iterative statements, switch functionality revamp, type inference,
closures, which are similar to blocks, generics, which can take up any data
type.
·
Swift underpin Unicode characters, as
variable names.
·
Swift is safe, modern and powerful
coding language, which allows the user to interact with a running app, side by
side, which Objective-C cannot.
Summing Up
The
Swift programming language seems to be the future of mobile app
development
as it helps in developing high-performing and secure mobile application. This
is the reason most of the mobile app developers adopted this programing
language and soon it will reach at the top of the app development charts.
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