Swift

An Open Source Swift Library For Easily Creating Much More Useful Logging Statements

John · Jun 24, 2014 ·

Previously I mentioned a Swift library inspired by Underscore.js, and a Swift library for working with the Twitter API.

Here’s a debug logging framework for Swift projects with a number of nice features called XCGLogger from Dave Wood.

Some of the features of XCGLogger include:

– Much more detailed log messages including line numbers, function names, timestamps
– Different log levels (severe, error, debug, info, verbose)
– Saving of the log to a file

This example from the Cerebral Gardens blog shows the detail added with XCLogger going from default logging output like this:

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Simple message
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to this:

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2014-06-09 06:44:43.600 [Debug] [AppDelegate.swift:40] application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:): Simple message
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You can find XCGLogger on Github here.

You can also read more about XCGLogger on the Cerebral Gardens blog.

A great library for easily creating more detailed logging statements.

An Extensive Open Source iOS Library For Working With The Twitter API Written In Swift

John · Jun 17, 2014 ·

Last week I mentioned a nice functional programming library for Swift inspired by Underscore.js.

Here’s a Twitter framework written in Swift from Matt Donelly called Swifter that provides a large number of features.

With Swifter authentication can done using Oauth or ACAccount, you can easily perform status updates, gather follower info, gather data on favorites, perform searches and more.

This example from the readme shows how easy it is to perform a status update:

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swifter.postStatusUpdate(“Hello, world”, inReplyToStatusID: nil, lat: nil, long: nil, placeID: nil, displayCoordinates: nil, trimUser: nil, success: {
json, response in
// …
}, failure: {
// …
})
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You can find Swifter on Github here.

A nice extensive framework for working with the Twitter API.

Open Source Functional Programming Toolbelt For Swift Inspired By The Underscore.js Library

John · Jun 13, 2014 ·

I’ve mentioned a few utility objective-c utility libraries inspired by Underscore.js most recently the Aterism library.

Here’s an open source library that provides a number of functional programming helper methods in the style of Underscore and Lo-Dash for those working with the new Swift programming language called Dollar $wift from Ankur Patel.

Here are few examples of Dollar.$swift in action from the readme:

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$.first([1, 2, 3, 4]) as Double == 1

$.compact([3, nil, 4, 5]) as NSObject[] == [3, 4, 5]

$.initial([3, 4, 5], numElements: 2) as Int[] == [3]

$.last([3, 4, 5]) as Int == 5
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You can find Dollar.$wift on the home page here.

A nice library for anyone working with Swift.