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Published inOct 2016
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781786469632
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Swift
Tools
Swift Playgrounds
Concepts
iOS Development
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Keith Elliott
Keith Elliott
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Keith Elliott

Keith Elliott is a multitalented professional with unique business and technology experience spanning telecommunications, real estate investment banking, and capital markets. His work is driven simply by problems that need solutions, whether the problem is as simple as his wifes request for a custom to-do list or as complex as interest rate derivatives and foreign exchange hedging. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in computer engineering. Keith's own company, GittieLabs LLC, works with startups to provide technology solutions. His vision is to equip students with the real-life experience necessary to succeed in startup and corporate life. You can find his blog on the GittieLabs LLC website, www.gittie.com. On nights and weekends, Keith can be found spending time with his family, riding motorcycles with his lovely wife, watching football, and rewatching countless hours of WWDC videos.
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Nested enumerations

The Foundation framework takes advantage of Swift 3's new nested enumeration feature. This feature allows the migrator to import related Objective-C enumerations into Swift under a common type. For example, the NSDateFormatterStyle and NSDateFormatterBehavior enumerations are imported as nested enumerations to the DateFormatter class in Swift. Let's see how we get to a nested enumeration in Swift 3, starting with an Objective-C enumeration.

In Objective-C:

typedef NS_ENUM(NSUInteger, NSDateFormatterStyle), 
{ 
   NSDateFormatterNoStyle     = kCFDateFormatterNoStyle, 
   NSDateFormatterShortStyle  = kCFDateFormatterShortStyle, 
   NSDateFormatterMediumStyle = kCFDateFormatterMediumStyle, 
   NSDateFormatterLongStyle   = kCFDateFormatterLongStyle, 
   NSDateFormatterFullStyle   = kCFDateFormatterFullStyle 
}; 
 
typedef NS_ENUM(NSUInteger, NSDateFormatterBehavior){ 
   NSDateFormatterBehaviorDefault = 0, 
   NSDateFormatterBehavior10_0...
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Keith Elliott

Keith Elliott is a multitalented professional with unique business and technology experience spanning telecommunications, real estate investment banking, and capital markets. His work is driven simply by problems that need solutions, whether the problem is as simple as his wifes request for a custom to-do list or as complex as interest rate derivatives and foreign exchange hedging. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in computer engineering. Keith's own company, GittieLabs LLC, works with startups to provide technology solutions. His vision is to equip students with the real-life experience necessary to succeed in startup and corporate life. You can find his blog on the GittieLabs LLC website, www.gittie.com. On nights and weekends, Keith can be found spending time with his family, riding motorcycles with his lovely wife, watching football, and rewatching countless hours of WWDC videos.
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