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

Posted by Joakim Wimmerstedt
Joakim Wimmerstedt
1,482 Points

Why haven't this been updated for xCode 6.1?

A lot of the API for swift seems to have changed, In this video it specifically seems to be NSString that is the problem.

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

has to be

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

for it to work.

In a prvious video, there was a problem with NSData as well, but we couldn't find a good solution for that (since we're beginners).

Joakim Birger Lie
Joakim Birger Lie
12,367 Points
Joakim Birger Lie
Joakim Birger Lie
12,367 Points

The solution for the previous video was the following line:

let weatherData = NSData(contentsOfURL: forecastURL!, options: nil, error: nil)

Pretty similar to what had to be done with NSString. Move the "contentsOfURL" into the parentheses, along with having to unwrap the forecastURL constant.