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Touches ended function not executing [on hold]

There seems to be a problem with my touches ended function. My touches began function works perfectly fine, although when i release my touch nothing happens. Here is my touches began function which ...
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Touches ended not executing [on hold]

Anyone know why my touches ended code is not executing. My touches began function is working fine, although when i release my finger from the touch nothing happens any help? `override func ...
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Basic calculator in Swift 3

I just started learning the basics to Swift 3 about 2 days ago. Since then, I've decided to make a simple calculator that can only do one operation at a time. I was wondering how efficient this was ...
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Extending CGPoint to conform to Hashable

For Advent of Code Day 1, I found myself needing to use a tuple as a key in a dictionary. Seeing that I can't extend tuples in Swift, I decided to extend CGPoint ...
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Listening to IOKit events with Swift 3

This is my first program in Swift/Xcode. The full source code and xcode project is available in GitHub. The part I would like reviewed is IOKeyEventMonitor.swift. ...
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Supporting different orientation in viewcontrollers

will you please give your thoughts (code review) on these two way of solving orientation. About the app: We have a universal App. The main purpose of the app is to watch the videos. The app has four ...
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Splitting an array into stride by 2

i've written a basic function to split an array into stride by 2: ...
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Generic wrapper for Alamofire Request's function jsonResponse wrapper

I am trying to wrap a responseJSON function of a Request class of Alamofire because when I send an API request I get a response ...
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Checking for required text fields for login

I wrote this script and it's working quite well however I think there's too much if else statements on it. How could I change them for a switch statement? ...
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Checking an authentication decision in a JSON response

I've been working on this login screen logic. It checks for the parameters in the JSON response to decide which action to follow. It works but it's kinda ugly and verbose. Any suggestions to ...
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Swift 3 Generic fetch request extension

I implemented an extension for the NSManagedObjectContext that takes any CoreData class as a parameter and performs a fetch request on it. I am new to CoreData ...
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Adding swipe support to multiple classes

I have implemented swipe functionality using UIPanGestureRecognizer in a project. What I have done is added PanGesture to ...
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UIAlertController and input validation

I'm refactoring some "old" Swift code using deprecated UIAlertView and delegates. I have a UIAlertController with an input ...
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Unique random number generation in Swift

In the process of learning Swift, I'm building a lotto numbers generator that generates a random number and appends it into an array, if the number already exists then it should re-generate a random ...
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Cat fight (with rockets)

My code is attempting to implement FP in an efficient / readable manner into some of my video games. I realize this may be a bit subjective, but I feel there is enough merit / objectivity to be of ...
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Categorized Photo Albums

I was told the function "hompage" was too clunky to conveniently make a tableview. The cells will have the information in "PHOTO ALBUM ICONS" and "BUTTON ON TOP OF PHOTO ALBUM ICONS". ...
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Quickselect algorithm in Swift

I recently answered a question on Stack Overflow about finding the k-largest element in an array, and present my implementation of the Quickselect algorithm in Swift for review. This is essentially ...
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Settings the height of rows for multiple screens within a TableViewController

Is there a better way to write this? This is a class that displays a preferences menu. We do this when the user first installs the app during a walk-through where we only show them some of the ...
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Converting [UInt32] -> [UInt8] -> [[UInt8]]

I am trying to speed up my current implementation of a function that converts [UInt32] to a [UInt8] which in turn is split up ...
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Formatting data in a UIViewController in a weight-training app

I'm writing a weight training app that calculates a one rep maximum and it has several options including recording your lifts in pounds or kilograms. I'm trying my best to follow the MVC pattern but I'...
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Implementation of a like button in iOS for Instagram like app in Swift

I have just completed an implementation a like button for an Instagram-like app, but now that I am looking at it I feel that there is something off. Maybe it is my formatting or maybe I am not quite ...
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Displaying JSON data from a server in a UICollectionView

This code pulls JSON from a server and delivers some data like imageURL, titleString and ...
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Extract regex matches with non matching parts

I want to check a string by using multiple search patterns and split the string at every occurrence. I'm using RegEx and it works fine. But I'm worrying about efficiency and performance. ...
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Accessing a UIView's parent UIViewController using the UIResponder chain

I recently found a static C function on Stack Overflow which returns a UIViewController reference from a containing subview using the responder chain: ...
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Swift FloatingPoint rounded to places

I'm playing a bit with extensions for default protocols in Swift 3.0. I would like to implement rounded(toPlaces places: Int) -> Self for ...
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Creating an area graph in iOS

I am trying to create an area graph from the upper and lower limit values. First I created two line graph from those points as: Sample data points are: ...
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View controllers and delegation for a weightlifting app in Swift

I've got several UIViewControllers that are trying to do too much so I'm trying to learn how to clean them up so that they only have code that does UI things (...
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Calling a method only once in an updateScore function in SpriteKit

This works fine, but obviously it's messy and I'm thinking there has to be a better way to do this. Having to constantly remember to flip the bool back is a pain, is there anything else I can do here? ...
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A custom UIView with gradient fill, border, and variable corner radii

Here is a swift port of UIView subclass that I use often in my apps. It allows me to easily set gradients in place of the backgroundColor property, and also makes it very easy to create views that ...
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Signing a String using an identity and trust from a PKCS #12 Bundle

One of the requirements of a third-party SDK I am integrating with is to sign an identifier string with the identity from a p12 certificate. This code loads a p12 certificate from the application's ...
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AES-128 Encryption/Decryption of NSData

I recently found an Objective-C extension on NSData that encodes and decodes data with AES-128. I made an attempt to port this code to Swift 2.2: NSData+AES.swift ...
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Calculating the tip and tax portions for a refund amount

refundableSale is a PMSale object with properties refundableTip, ...
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Chop off trailing newline for Swift's NSAttributedString

I've made this extension but I'm touchy around NSAttributedStrings, keenly aware that Swift refuses to use the traditional notion of integer lengths on Unicode <...
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LeetCode Counting Bits in Swift

I solve this problem in Swift. I am looking for a code review, thanks! Given a non negative integer number num. For every numbers i in the range 0 ≤ i ≤ num calculate the number of 1's in their ...
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Efficient way in Swift to trim an array

Let's say I have a struct… struct Person { let isMale: Bool let name: String } and an array of Person structs. I want ...
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House cleaning calculator

I have a tableView holding an array of 4 items: ...
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Spawning nodes with random time interval in SpriteKit

I want to spawn objects with random time interval (from 1 to 3 seconds). I've wrote this function: ...
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Proper cellForRowAtIndexPath cell return in Swift

So I have started creating a UITableView with multiple prototype cells. I currently have the below code setup, which works fine ...
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Safe init using failable guarded initializer

I am wondering if that is a safe and proper init, with one failable init guarded and an init. Are the force-unwrap correct in the self.init as I know they are ...
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Registering Pokémon weaknesses

I recently answered a question that had me wondering if I could simplify this below code without creating an extra function: ...
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Adding or editing a child

I have a class which will add or edit a child. So whenever I click on "save," I need to check the child image. If it's an image, then I need to upload to the image server. Once that's done only, I ...
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Big Nerd Ranch Bronze Challenge: Disallow Alphabetic Characters

I just completed BNR's bronze challenge for disallowing alphabetic characters, and would love some feedback on what I did right and wrong, and how I can improve my code for reusability and ...
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Swift inheritance versus composition

Say I'm using Parse Server and utilising the PFObject class from the iOS SDK. Say I want to have a Chat class. To use inheritance code (design 1): ...
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Hackerrank Simple Text Editor in Swift

I solve this problem in Swift. However, some cases I got terminated due to timeout because the solution isn't efficient enough. I did check the solutions and they are correct. Any tips on making it ...
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Water flowing swiftly over farmland – The August 2016 Community Challenge

This is my attempt to solve the August 2016 Community Challenge in Swift. I tried to implement the algorithm described by @200_success: Each Cell keeps track ...
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Swift HackerRank Balanced Brackets

I solved this stack problem in Swift. Looking for any feedback on my code: ...
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Swift Hackerrank Maximum Element in a Stack

I solve this problem in Swift. I'm not sure if using an array was the right way to approach it since the problem was on stacks. Any feedback on my code is appreciated: You have an empty sequence, ...