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Ahmad Sahar
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Ahmad Sahar

Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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Updating the app using async/await

As you saw previously, the app is unresponsive when the makeToast() and poachEgg() methods are running. To resolve this, you will use async/await in the app.

Writing the async keyword in the method declaration indicates that the method is asynchronous. This is what it looks like:

func methodName() async -> returnType {

Writing the await keyword in front of a method call marks a point where execution may be suspended, thus allowing other operations to run. This is what it looks like:

await methodName()

You can watch Apple’s WWDC21 video discussing async/await at https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10132/.

You will modify your app to use async/await. This will enable it to suspend the makeToast() and poachEgg() methods to process button taps and update the user interface, then resume execution of both methods afterward. Follow these steps:

  1. Modify the makeToast() and poachEgg()...
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Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.
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