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iOS Enhance a Weather App with Table Views Implementing the Detail View Adding UI Elements

Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
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Posted by Anthony Attard
Anthony Attard
43,915 Points

Why does var dailyWeather: DailyWeather? come before the outlets?

Why does var dailyWeather: DailyWeather? come before the outlets? Wouldn't we solve the issue of outlets not updating if we moved var dailyWeather after the outlets?

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Gwinyai Nyatsoka
Gwinyai Nyatsoka
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Gwinyai Nyatsoka
Gwinyai Nyatsoka
7,428 Points

The outlets are only updated when the view is fully loaded so they still won't update even if we put them after. var dailyWeather: DailyWeather uses a property observer didSet{} which is initialised by the prepareForSegue method. When this happens it calls the configureView method which does the job of updating outlets but it tries to do so when the view has not yet loaded. This is why we call configureView again in the viewDidLoad method which is a method that is automatically called when the view has fully loaded.