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Dr. Dominik Hauser
Dr. Dominik Hauser
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Dr. Dominik Hauser

Dr. Dominik Hauser is an iOS developer working for a small company in western Germany. In over 11 years as an iOS developer, he has worked on many different apps, both large and small. In his spare time, Dominik builds small (often silly) apps and explores how he can become a better iOS developer. He talks at conferences, writes books, and is active in the iOS community in general. His most successful open source component (in terms of stars) is a pull-to-refresh control for a table view that consists of an actual SpriteKit game. Before Dominik became an iOS developer, he was a physicist, researching the most powerful photon sources within our galaxy.
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Refactoring to a diffable data source

In iOS 13, Apple introduced the UITableViewDiffableDataSource class. This class manages the update of a table view when the data changes and it can be used as the data source of any table view. It should be used, when possible, because implementing updates of a table view is a bit complicated and can lead to strange bugs and even crashes. In addition, the code needed to set up such a data source is often easier to read and reason about than the traditional implementation we used in the previous section.

Follow these steps to transform our implementation to one that uses a diffable data source:

  1. A diffable data source manages the data in the table view using a section and an item that both need to conform to the Hashable protocol. We already have an item we can use in the diffable data source, the ToDoItem structure. However, this structure does not yet conform to Hashable. To make it conform to that protocol, add the following code to...
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Dr. Dominik Hauser

Dr. Dominik Hauser is an iOS developer working for a small company in western Germany. In over 11 years as an iOS developer, he has worked on many different apps, both large and small. In his spare time, Dominik builds small (often silly) apps and explores how he can become a better iOS developer. He talks at conferences, writes books, and is active in the iOS community in general. His most successful open source component (in terms of stars) is a pull-to-refresh control for a table view that consists of an actual SpriteKit game. Before Dominik became an iOS developer, he was a physicist, researching the most powerful photon sources within our galaxy.
Read more about Dr. Dominik Hauser