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Swift provides a class called JSONSerialization to convert a JSON string to dictionary format. For example, you are receiving a JSON string from the database, in order to use it in the application, you might need to convert it into a real object type. In this article, you will see some examples of how to convert a JSON string into a dictionary. What is JSON String? A JSON string is a string that is converted to a different format such as base64 or URL encoding. This converted string can be used for networking requests or to store in the database. ... Read More

In Swift, you can use the Codable protocol to make an enum decodable as well. In Swift, the Codable protocol is a very powerful concept to provide flexibility to decode and encode any type of value. Also, you can make an enum decodable as well. You have to just define an enum in your custom type. In order to make an enum decodable, the enum must conform to the Codable protocol. In this article, we will learn how to use the Codable protocol to make an enum decodable in Swift What is the JSONDecoder Class? The JSONDecoder class is then ... Read More

In Swift, you can use the built-in Data type and its method base64EncodedString() to encode a string to Base64. In the iOS applications, you might need to encode a string to base64 mostly in networking requests and responses. Mostly, you will need to encode a string to base64 and vice versa. Let's learn how to encode a string to Base64 using Swift. Example In this example, we will use the following steps to encode a string to base64 − Step 1 − In this step, we will convert the string to a Data object using the data(using: .utf8) method. ... Read More

In iOS app development, it is common to find the index of a character in a string. Based on the given index, you can perform different actions. In this article, you will see some examples of how to get the index of a character using the below functions − firstIndex(of:) firstIndex(where:) range(of:) All the above methods can be performed on a string value in different use cases. Using the FirstIndex() Method In Swift, you can use the firstIndex(of:) method to find the index of a character within a string. Here's an example −Example let inputString = "The quick ... Read More

Swift provides a class called JSONSerialization to convert a dictionary to a JSON string. We will use the two steps to convert a dictionary to a JSON string in the Swift language. Here are the steps − Convert a dictionary into JSON data format using JSONSerialization.data() method which takes a dictionary object as a parameter along with the options. Now using the String(data:encoding:) constructor, convert the JSON data into JSON string format. In this article, you will see some examples of how to convert a dictionary into a JSON string. JSONSerialization The Foundation framework for iOS and ... Read More

To remove an object by value from an array in Swift, you can create an extension to the Array type. You can then call the function that takes the value to eliminate as a parameter. In this article, we will use the filter function to remove an object passing by value in the Swift language. Let's see some examples of how you can eliminate an object by value from an array Example 1: Remove an Object Using the Filter Function You can use the built-in filter method to create a new array without the matching value. Algorithm Step 1 ... Read More

In Swift, we have a dismiss method of the class UIViewController that can be used to dismiss a ViewController in Swift. In this method, a Boolean value is used as an argument. There is an argument in this argument that asks whether the dismissed controller should be animated. By default, this is true in this method. The following example shows how to dismiss a UIViewController screen in Swift. First view controller setup In this step, we will set up the first view controller to present the second view controller. We will add a button to the first view controller, which ... Read More

In the iOS applications, the UIImageView class does not provide in-build support to make it clickable like other components e.g. UIButton. In order to make UIImageView clickable, you can add a UITapGestureRecognizer to the image view. Remember that, by default, UIImageView does not take any interaction from the user. To make it interactable, set true to the isUserInteractionEnabled property. In this article, you will learn how you can add a tag gesture to the image view in Swift. To add a tap gesture, we will follow these steps − Step 1 - Create an Image View let profileImageView = ... Read More

In iOS, there is a class CAGradientLayer to apply gradient colors to views. In this article, we will look at how you can use the CAGradientLayer class to apply gradients to the background of a view in iOS. The CAGradientLayer class provides different properties like colors, locations, points, frame, etc. We will use them to apply the gradient to a view. In last, we will use the insertSublayer method to add the gradient layer to the super view. To apply a gradient to the background view of an iOS Swift app, you can follow these steps − Step 1 - ... Read More

Generally, we use UIAlertController to show an alert with a dismiss action button. But UIAlertController provides you with more flexibility to add UITextFields to the alert. Let's see some examples of different use cases. When you add a text field to the UIAlertController, you can take the input value entered in the text field. It is also possible to add multiple text fields. In this example, we will use the following steps to get input values from the text field in iOS. Basic Setup In this step, you will add a button object to the controller's view to present the ... Read More