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Chris Stromberg
Courses Plus Student 13,389 PointsStudy app programming question.
I wanted to create an app that simply loads a question and then when a button is pushed it loads a corresponding answer.
What would be the best way to store the question and answers to support "MVC" principals?
Put questions and answers in a PList?
Put questions and answers in a NSDictionary?
Thanks.
3 Answers
Stephen McMillan
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 33,994 PointsHey Chris,
Sorry for the late reply!
I did this to access the Plist.
var plistPath = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource("arrayOfStrings", ofType: "plist")
var array = NSArray(contentsOfFile: plistPath)
You can let use the array variable as though it were a normal array you just created. If you had a dictionary in your plist you would just need to change the array variable to be of type NSDictionary.
Stephen McMillan
iOS Development with Swift Techdegree Graduate 33,994 PointsI recently created an app which used did the same sort of thing except it wasn't with questions and answers.
In my case I used a plist because I felt the data was 'tider'... I guess as long as the data isn't in your ViewController then it sticks to the mvc design pattern.
Chris Stromberg
Courses Plus Student 13,389 PointsStephen,
What code or method did you use to access the Plist so that it could be displayed?