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iOS Build a Weather App with Swift (Retired) Concurrency Using Our JSON Data

Alphonse Yang
Alphonse Yang
7,830 Points
Posted by Alphonse Yang
Alphonse Yang
7,830 Points

dot notation method

I am using the Xcode 6.1 GM, and I found that some dot notation methods couldn't be found in the Xcode, for example, the NSString.stringWithContentsOfURL().. But if I use the constructor, there's a similar function, is that because of the swift update?

Sebastiano Sessa
Sebastiano Sessa
285 Points

It seems like there have been several updates to Swift and the videos have yet to be updated to reflect these changes. I'm having lots of problems following these trainings since most of the time I need to stop and do some research to find the latest syntax...

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Jaroslaw Oleksy
Jaroslaw Oleksy
4,992 Points
Jaroslaw Oleksy
Jaroslaw Oleksy
4,992 Points

I think the line should go like this in Xcode 6.1:

var urlContents = NSString(contentsOfURL: location, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding, error: nil)