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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift Structs As Data Models Finishing Up Our Model

Patrick McLeod
Patrick McLeod
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Posted by Patrick McLeod
Patrick McLeod
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Is there a reason why we cant use arc4random_uniform()

Hi Unless Pasan is purposefully trying to make us use the GameKit Framework, is there a reason why we cant use Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(facts.count)))? Many thanks in advanced. Cheers

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Emin Grbo
Emin Grbo
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Emin Grbo
Emin Grbo
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It is an Objective C way of doing things and "messy" since you need to do several conversions. I like arc4random and used it before, but things are moving fast an i think Pasan wants to make people realize that there are some new ways of doing things that might save some time.

Hope this helped, don't forget to mark the answer if it did :)

kols
kols
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kols
kols
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For anyone curious: yes, you can use arc4random_uniform() for this; although — as Emin already stated — the code's just not as clean, and I believe the GameKit random generator is generally the preferred method of the two at this point.

I just added code using this approach on a post asking a similar question if anyone's still looking to see how this might work.