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Error `Type of expression is ambiguous without a type annotation` when trying to create a Task.
Hi, I've got this view model that will do a search using a database of keywords. It worked fine when the SearchEngine wasn't an actor but a regular class and the SearchResult wasn't a Sendable. But when I changed them, it returned Type of expression is ambiguous without a type annotation error at line 21 ( searchTask = Task {). What did I do wrong here? Thanks. protocol SearchableEngine: Actor { func searchOrSuggest(from query: String) -> SearchResult? func setValidTitles(_ validTitles: [String]) } @MainActor final class SearchViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var showSuggestion: Bool = false @Published var searchedTitles: [String] = [] @Published var suggestedKeyword: String? = nil private var searchTask: Task<Void, Never>? private let searchEngine: SearchableEngine init(searchEngine: SearchableEngine) { self.searchEngine = searchEngine } func search(_ text: String) { searchTask?.cancel() searchTask = Task { guard !Task.isCancelled else { return } let searchResult = await searchEngine.searchOrSuggest(from: text) ?? .notFound guard !Task.isCancelled else { return } await MainActor.run { switch searchResult { case let .searchItems(_, items): showSuggestion = false searchedTitles = items.map(\.title) suggestedKeyword = nil case let .suggestion(keyword, _, items): showSuggestion = true searchedTitles = items.map(\.title) suggestedKeyword = keyword case .notFound: showSuggestion = false searchedTitles = [] suggestedKeyword = nil } } } } }
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Beginner’s question on learning philosophy.
Hello Everyone! I started programming 6 months ago and started Swift / IOS last month. My learning so far has mainly been with Python. I learned a lot of the package ‘SQLAlchemy’, which has very ‘example based’ documentation. If I wanted to learn how to make a many to many relationship, there was a demonstration with code. But going into Swift and Apple packages, I notice most of the documentation is definitions of structures, modifiers, functions, etc. I wanted to make the equivalent of python ‘date times’ in my swift app. I found the section in the documentation “Foundation->Dates & Times”, but I couldn’t figure how to use that in my code. I assume my goal should not be to memorize every Swift and apple functionality by memory to be an app developer. So I would appreciate advice on how to approach this aspect of learning programming.
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Oct ’25
Archive Failing for iPhoneOS SDK in Xcode 26
When i am trying to archive a framework for ML, using below command: xcodebuild -workspace "./src/MLProject.xcworkspace" -configuration "Release" -sdk "iphoneos" -archivePath "./gen/out/Archives/Release-iphoneos/MLProject" -scheme "MLProject" -derivedDataPath "./gen/out/" archive BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES SKIP_INSTALL=NO The same command used to work fine on Xcode 16.4. Attached is the detailed error MLProject_Archive_failure.txt
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Parameter Errors - procedural vs. optional
So I’m writing a program, as a developer would - ‘with Xcode.’ Code produced an error. The key values were swapped. The parameters suggested were ‘optional parameters variables.’ “var name: TYPE? = (default)” var name0: TYPE ============================= name0 = “super cool” ‘Name is not yet declared at this point provided with x - incorrect argument replace ExampleStruct(name:”supercool”) should be x - incorrect argument replace ExampleStruct(name0:”supercool”) ============================= In swift, there is a procedural prioritization within the constructor calling process. Application calls constructor. Constructor provides constructor signature. Signature requires parameters & throws an error if the params are not in appropriate order. - “got it compiler; thank you, very much” Typically, when this occurs, defaults will be suggested. Often the variable type. Ie String, Bool. such as: StructName(param1:Int64, param2:Bool) (Recently, I have seen a decline in @Apple’s performance in many vectors.) As stated before, the key value pairs were out of sequence. The optionals were suggested instead of the required parameters. This leads me to believe that there is an order of operations in the calling procedure that is being mismanaged. I.e. regular expression, matching with optional. This confuses these with [forced, required] parameters, and the mismanagement of ‘key: value’ pairs. this is a superficial prognosis and would like to know if anyone has any insight as to why this may occur. Could it be a configuration setting? Is it possibly the network I connected to bumped into something. Etc.. I appreciate any and all feedback. Please take into consideration the Apple developer forum, guidelines before posting comments. #dev_div
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Jan ’26
NSWindowController subclass in Swift
In trying to convert some Objective-C to Swift, I have a subclass of NSWindowController and want to write a convenience initializer. The documentation says You can also implement an NSWindowController subclass to avoid requiring client code to get the corresponding nib’s filename and pass it to init(windowNibName:) or init(windowNibName:owner:) when instantiating the window controller. The best way to do this is to override windowNibName to return the nib’s filename and instantiate the window controller by passing nil to init(window:). My attempt to do that looks like this: class EdgeTab: NSWindowController { override var windowNibName: NSNib.Name? { "EdgeTab" } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { super.init(coder: coder) } convenience init() { self.init( window: nil ) } } But I'm getting an error message saying "Incorrect argument label in call (have 'window:', expected 'coder:')". Why the heck is the compiler trying to use init(coder:) instead of init(window:)?
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Dec ’25
Using Observations with SwiftData @Model
I want to use the Observations AsyncSequence on some SwiftData @Model instances to determine if internal calculations need to be done. When a simple property is linked to the Observations it fires CONTINUOUSLY even though no change is made to the model property. Also, when I try to observe a property which is a list of another @Model type the Observations sequence does not fire when I add or remove items. I am hoping to use the async-algorithm's merge function so all the associated sequences can be combined since if any of the associated events should fire the calculation event.
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Jan ’26
JavaScript/Swift Interoperability
I think that it would be helpful to have better interoperability between Swift and JavaScript. There are a lot of useful packages on NPM that don't have equivalents for Swift. It would be helpful if Apple provided easier ways to use NPM packages in a Swift project. Currently, the JavaScriptCore framework is missing many standard things used in many packages, like the fetch API. It would be helpful to be able to run sandboxed JavaScript code inside of a Swift app but allow access to specific domains, folders, etc., using a permissions system similar to Deno.
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vDSP.DiscreteFourierTransform failed to initialize with 5 * 5 * 2^n count
I am implementing the FFT using vDSP.DiscreteFourierTransform. According to the official documentation, the count parameter has requirements as outlined below: /// The `count` parameter must be: /// * For split-complex real-to-complex: `2ⁿ` or `f * 2ⁿ`, where `f` is `3`, `5`, or `15` and `n >= 4`. /// * For split-complex complex-to-complex: `2ⁿ` or `f * 2ⁿ`, where `f` is `3`, `5`, or `15` and `n >= 3`. /// * For interleaved: `f * 2ⁿ`, where `f` is `2`, `3`, `5`, `3x3`, `3x5`, or `5x5`, and `n>=2`. Despite adhering to these specifications in theory, my attempt to initialize an interleaved DFT with count = 2 * 2 * 5 * 5 (equivalent to 5×5 × 2²) resulted in a failure. Below is the code snippet I used for the initialization: do { let dft = try vDSP.DiscreteFourierTransform( previous: nil, count: 2 * 2 * 5 * 5, direction: .forward, transformType: .complexReal, ofType: DSPComplex.self ) print(dft) } catch { print("DFT init failed:", error) } Could somebody more knowledgeable with these APIs have a look? Thanks!
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Why is the Documentation full of Conundrums?
I'm trying to learn and focus on the task and your examples keep having hidden conundrums in them. Here is an example that got me snagged for hours last night going, Well what the F do they want me to name it? What is it you want me to learn here? Because you pose a giant riddle of name something that you should be given a name for... My friend said to me that this is a common thing you will have to do and they were right however... What are you asking me to do? Get stuck on the variable naming problem where I'm going... Yeah those are math terms from 20+ years ago and I have no idea how to classify those terms... Are you asking me that? No. So why is that in the problem. These conundrums mixed in with legitimate problems honestly make me not want to learn Swift at all.
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On iPad with Swift Playgrounds: How to open chapter as a playground?
Note On a Mac with Xcode installed, or on an iPad with Swift Playgrounds, you can open this chapter as a playground. Playgrounds allow you to edit the code listings and see the results immediately. (Note in page 3) (I would like to open the chapter or book: Swift Programming Language in Swift Playground on iPad) https://books.apple.com/ve/book/the-swift-programming-language-swift-5-7-beta/id1002622538?l=en-GB Best regards
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NotificationCenter Crash On iOS 18+ Swift6.2
After switching our iOS app project from Swift 5 to Swift 6 and publishing an update, we started seeing a large number of crashes in Firebase Crashlytics. The crashes are triggered by NotificationCenter methods (post, addObserver, removeObserver) and show the following error: BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Assertion failed: Block was expected to execute on queue [com.apple.main-thread (0x1f9dc1580)] All scopes to related calls are already explicitly marked with @MainActor. This issue never occurred with Swift 5, but appeared immediately after moving to Swift 6. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there a known solution or workaround? Thanks in advance!
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iOS and Android
I currently have a iOS app live on the App Store but I also want to release it on Android, the whole code is in Swift so would that be possible or would I have to rewrite my whole apps code in a different coding language.
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Data Disappeared
Hi, writing a database app for storing equipment details. Spent the day doing minor changes and tidying with many backups made, and always re-building to check its all working. Everything ok but then next build looses all data, what's the best thing to check to see if the data is still there, any help would be fantastic.
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Actors with Combine publishers as properties.
Is it ok for an Actor type to have a Publisher as a property to let others observe changes over time? Or use the @Published property wrapper to achieve this? actor MyActor { var publisher = PassthroughSubject<Int, Never>() var data: Int { didSet { publisher.send(data) } } ... } // Usage var tasks = Set<AnyCancellable>() let actor = MyActor() Task { let publisher = await actor.publisher publisher.sink { print($0) }.store(in: &tasks) } This seems like this should be acceptable. I would expect a Publisher to be thread safe, and as long as the Output is a value type things should be fine. I have been getting random EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors when using this approach. But turning on the address sanitizer causes these crashes to go away. I know that isn't very specific but I wanted to start by seeing if this type of pattern is ok to do.
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Crash with Progress type, Swift 6, iOS 18
We are getting a crash _dispatch_assert_queue_fail when the cancellationHandler on NSProgress is called. We do not see this with iOS 17.x, only on iOS 18. We are building in Swift 6 language mode and do not have any compiler warnings. We have a type whose init looks something like this: init( request: URLRequest, destinationURL: URL, session: URLSession ) { progress = Progress() progress.kind = .file progress.fileOperationKind = .downloading progress.fileURL = destinationURL progress.pausingHandler = { [weak self] in self?.setIsPaused(true) } progress.resumingHandler = { [weak self] in self?.setIsPaused(false) } progress.cancellationHandler = { [weak self] in self?.cancel() } When the progress is cancelled, and the cancellation handler is invoked. We get the crash. The crash is not reproducible 100% of the time, but it happens significantly often. Especially after cleaning and rebuilding and running our tests. * thread #4, queue = 'com.apple.root.default-qos', stop reason = EXC_BREAKPOINT (code=1, subcode=0x18017b0e8) * frame #0: 0x000000018017b0e8 libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_assert_queue_fail + 116 frame #1: 0x000000018017b074 libdispatch.dylib`dispatch_assert_queue + 188 frame #2: 0x00000002444c63e0 libswift_Concurrency.dylib`swift_task_isCurrentExecutorImpl(swift::SerialExecutorRef) + 284 frame #3: 0x000000010b80bd84 MyTests`closure #3 in MyController.init() at MyController.swift:0 frame #4: 0x000000010b80bb04 MyTests`thunk for @escaping @callee_guaranteed @Sendable () -&gt; () at &lt;compiler-generated&gt;:0 frame #5: 0x00000001810276b0 Foundation`__20-[NSProgress cancel]_block_invoke_3 + 28 frame #6: 0x00000001801774ec libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_call_block_and_release + 24 frame #7: 0x0000000180178de0 libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_client_callout + 16 frame #8: 0x000000018018b7dc libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_root_queue_drain + 1072 frame #9: 0x000000018018bf60 libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_worker_thread2 + 232 frame #10: 0x00000001012a77d8 libsystem_pthread.dylib`_pthread_wqthread + 224 Any thoughts on why this is crashing and what we can do to work-around it? I have not been able to extract our code into a simple reproducible case yet. And I mostly see it when running our code in a testing environment (XCTest). Although I have been able to reproduce it running an app a few times, it's just less common.
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MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork crashes on Swift 6
Hey all! in my personal quest to make future proof apps moving to Swift 6, one of my app has a problem when setting an artwork image in MPNowPlayingInfoCenter Here's what I'm using to set the metadata func setMetadata(title: String? = nil, artist: String? = nil, artwork: String? = nil) async throws { let defaultArtwork = UIImage(named: "logo")! var nowPlayingInfo = [ MPMediaItemPropertyTitle: title ?? "***", MPMediaItemPropertyArtist: artist ?? "***", MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork: MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: defaultArtwork.size) { _ in defaultArtwork } ] as [String: Any] if let artwork = artwork { guard let url = URL(string: artwork) else { return } let (data, response) = try await URLSession.shared.data(from: url) guard (response as? HTTPURLResponse)?.statusCode == 200 else { return } guard let image = UIImage(data: data) else { return } nowPlayingInfo[MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork] = MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: image.size) { _ in image } } MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = nowPlayingInfo } the app crashes when hitting MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork: MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: defaultArtwork.size) { _ in defaultArtwork } or nowPlayingInfo[MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork] = MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: image.size) { _ in image } commenting out these two make the app work again. Again, no clue on why. Thanks in advance
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Error `Type of expression is ambiguous without a type annotation` when trying to create a Task.
Hi, I've got this view model that will do a search using a database of keywords. It worked fine when the SearchEngine wasn't an actor but a regular class and the SearchResult wasn't a Sendable. But when I changed them, it returned Type of expression is ambiguous without a type annotation error at line 21 ( searchTask = Task {). What did I do wrong here? Thanks. protocol SearchableEngine: Actor { func searchOrSuggest(from query: String) -> SearchResult? func setValidTitles(_ validTitles: [String]) } @MainActor final class SearchViewModel: ObservableObject { @Published var showSuggestion: Bool = false @Published var searchedTitles: [String] = [] @Published var suggestedKeyword: String? = nil private var searchTask: Task<Void, Never>? private let searchEngine: SearchableEngine init(searchEngine: SearchableEngine) { self.searchEngine = searchEngine } func search(_ text: String) { searchTask?.cancel() searchTask = Task { guard !Task.isCancelled else { return } let searchResult = await searchEngine.searchOrSuggest(from: text) ?? .notFound guard !Task.isCancelled else { return } await MainActor.run { switch searchResult { case let .searchItems(_, items): showSuggestion = false searchedTitles = items.map(\.title) suggestedKeyword = nil case let .suggestion(keyword, _, items): showSuggestion = true searchedTitles = items.map(\.title) suggestedKeyword = keyword case .notFound: showSuggestion = false searchedTitles = [] suggestedKeyword = nil } } } } }
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Beginner’s question on learning philosophy.
Hello Everyone! I started programming 6 months ago and started Swift / IOS last month. My learning so far has mainly been with Python. I learned a lot of the package ‘SQLAlchemy’, which has very ‘example based’ documentation. If I wanted to learn how to make a many to many relationship, there was a demonstration with code. But going into Swift and Apple packages, I notice most of the documentation is definitions of structures, modifiers, functions, etc. I wanted to make the equivalent of python ‘date times’ in my swift app. I found the section in the documentation “Foundation->Dates & Times”, but I couldn’t figure how to use that in my code. I assume my goal should not be to memorize every Swift and apple functionality by memory to be an app developer. So I would appreciate advice on how to approach this aspect of learning programming.
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Oct ’25
Archive Failing for iPhoneOS SDK in Xcode 26
When i am trying to archive a framework for ML, using below command: xcodebuild -workspace "./src/MLProject.xcworkspace" -configuration "Release" -sdk "iphoneos" -archivePath "./gen/out/Archives/Release-iphoneos/MLProject" -scheme "MLProject" -derivedDataPath "./gen/out/" archive BUILD_LIBRARY_FOR_DISTRIBUTION=YES SKIP_INSTALL=NO The same command used to work fine on Xcode 16.4. Attached is the detailed error MLProject_Archive_failure.txt
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Oct ’25
Parameter Errors - procedural vs. optional
So I’m writing a program, as a developer would - ‘with Xcode.’ Code produced an error. The key values were swapped. The parameters suggested were ‘optional parameters variables.’ “var name: TYPE? = (default)” var name0: TYPE ============================= name0 = “super cool” ‘Name is not yet declared at this point provided with x - incorrect argument replace ExampleStruct(name:”supercool”) should be x - incorrect argument replace ExampleStruct(name0:”supercool”) ============================= In swift, there is a procedural prioritization within the constructor calling process. Application calls constructor. Constructor provides constructor signature. Signature requires parameters & throws an error if the params are not in appropriate order. - “got it compiler; thank you, very much” Typically, when this occurs, defaults will be suggested. Often the variable type. Ie String, Bool. such as: StructName(param1:Int64, param2:Bool) (Recently, I have seen a decline in @Apple’s performance in many vectors.) As stated before, the key value pairs were out of sequence. The optionals were suggested instead of the required parameters. This leads me to believe that there is an order of operations in the calling procedure that is being mismanaged. I.e. regular expression, matching with optional. This confuses these with [forced, required] parameters, and the mismanagement of ‘key: value’ pairs. this is a superficial prognosis and would like to know if anyone has any insight as to why this may occur. Could it be a configuration setting? Is it possibly the network I connected to bumped into something. Etc.. I appreciate any and all feedback. Please take into consideration the Apple developer forum, guidelines before posting comments. #dev_div
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Jan ’26
NSWindowController subclass in Swift
In trying to convert some Objective-C to Swift, I have a subclass of NSWindowController and want to write a convenience initializer. The documentation says You can also implement an NSWindowController subclass to avoid requiring client code to get the corresponding nib’s filename and pass it to init(windowNibName:) or init(windowNibName:owner:) when instantiating the window controller. The best way to do this is to override windowNibName to return the nib’s filename and instantiate the window controller by passing nil to init(window:). My attempt to do that looks like this: class EdgeTab: NSWindowController { override var windowNibName: NSNib.Name? { "EdgeTab" } required init?(coder: NSCoder) { super.init(coder: coder) } convenience init() { self.init( window: nil ) } } But I'm getting an error message saying "Incorrect argument label in call (have 'window:', expected 'coder:')". Why the heck is the compiler trying to use init(coder:) instead of init(window:)?
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Dec ’25
Using Observations with SwiftData @Model
I want to use the Observations AsyncSequence on some SwiftData @Model instances to determine if internal calculations need to be done. When a simple property is linked to the Observations it fires CONTINUOUSLY even though no change is made to the model property. Also, when I try to observe a property which is a list of another @Model type the Observations sequence does not fire when I add or remove items. I am hoping to use the async-algorithm's merge function so all the associated sequences can be combined since if any of the associated events should fire the calculation event.
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Jan ’26
JavaScript/Swift Interoperability
I think that it would be helpful to have better interoperability between Swift and JavaScript. There are a lot of useful packages on NPM that don't have equivalents for Swift. It would be helpful if Apple provided easier ways to use NPM packages in a Swift project. Currently, the JavaScriptCore framework is missing many standard things used in many packages, like the fetch API. It would be helpful to be able to run sandboxed JavaScript code inside of a Swift app but allow access to specific domains, folders, etc., using a permissions system similar to Deno.
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vDSP.DiscreteFourierTransform failed to initialize with 5 * 5 * 2^n count
I am implementing the FFT using vDSP.DiscreteFourierTransform. According to the official documentation, the count parameter has requirements as outlined below: /// The `count` parameter must be: /// * For split-complex real-to-complex: `2ⁿ` or `f * 2ⁿ`, where `f` is `3`, `5`, or `15` and `n >= 4`. /// * For split-complex complex-to-complex: `2ⁿ` or `f * 2ⁿ`, where `f` is `3`, `5`, or `15` and `n >= 3`. /// * For interleaved: `f * 2ⁿ`, where `f` is `2`, `3`, `5`, `3x3`, `3x5`, or `5x5`, and `n>=2`. Despite adhering to these specifications in theory, my attempt to initialize an interleaved DFT with count = 2 * 2 * 5 * 5 (equivalent to 5×5 × 2²) resulted in a failure. Below is the code snippet I used for the initialization: do { let dft = try vDSP.DiscreteFourierTransform( previous: nil, count: 2 * 2 * 5 * 5, direction: .forward, transformType: .complexReal, ofType: DSPComplex.self ) print(dft) } catch { print("DFT init failed:", error) } Could somebody more knowledgeable with these APIs have a look? Thanks!
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Jan ’26
Why is the Documentation full of Conundrums?
I'm trying to learn and focus on the task and your examples keep having hidden conundrums in them. Here is an example that got me snagged for hours last night going, Well what the F do they want me to name it? What is it you want me to learn here? Because you pose a giant riddle of name something that you should be given a name for... My friend said to me that this is a common thing you will have to do and they were right however... What are you asking me to do? Get stuck on the variable naming problem where I'm going... Yeah those are math terms from 20+ years ago and I have no idea how to classify those terms... Are you asking me that? No. So why is that in the problem. These conundrums mixed in with legitimate problems honestly make me not want to learn Swift at all.
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On iPad with Swift Playgrounds: How to open chapter as a playground?
Note On a Mac with Xcode installed, or on an iPad with Swift Playgrounds, you can open this chapter as a playground. Playgrounds allow you to edit the code listings and see the results immediately. (Note in page 3) (I would like to open the chapter or book: Swift Programming Language in Swift Playground on iPad) https://books.apple.com/ve/book/the-swift-programming-language-swift-5-7-beta/id1002622538?l=en-GB Best regards
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How works Experiment (Documentation) in Swift Playground?
Experiment Create a constant with an explicit type of Float and a value of 4. https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-programming-language/guidedtour
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Swift question:
Is there a swift6 manual that will teach me how to code in swift?
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Apr ’25
How can I enable “Approachable Concurrency” for a Swift Package?
I’m aware that Xcode version 26 beta 3 provides an option to enable Swift’s Approachable Concurrency feature at the project level. However, I’d like to achieve the same for a Swift Package. Could you please advise on how to enable Approachable Concurrency support specifically for a Swift Package?
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How to retrieve the % of memory pressure using native libraries
Is there any way to retrieve the memory pressure percentage using native libraries? When I run the memory-pressure command, I can see the percentage of free memory, but I’d like to retrieve the same information using a native library.
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Oct ’25
NotificationCenter Crash On iOS 18+ Swift6.2
After switching our iOS app project from Swift 5 to Swift 6 and publishing an update, we started seeing a large number of crashes in Firebase Crashlytics. The crashes are triggered by NotificationCenter methods (post, addObserver, removeObserver) and show the following error: BUG IN CLIENT OF LIBDISPATCH: Assertion failed: Block was expected to execute on queue [com.apple.main-thread (0x1f9dc1580)] All scopes to related calls are already explicitly marked with @MainActor. This issue never occurred with Swift 5, but appeared immediately after moving to Swift 6. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Is there a known solution or workaround? Thanks in advance!
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iOS and Android
I currently have a iOS app live on the App Store but I also want to release it on Android, the whole code is in Swift so would that be possible or would I have to rewrite my whole apps code in a different coding language.
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Data Disappeared
Hi, writing a database app for storing equipment details. Spent the day doing minor changes and tidying with many backups made, and always re-building to check its all working. Everything ok but then next build looses all data, what's the best thing to check to see if the data is still there, any help would be fantastic.
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Actors with Combine publishers as properties.
Is it ok for an Actor type to have a Publisher as a property to let others observe changes over time? Or use the @Published property wrapper to achieve this? actor MyActor { var publisher = PassthroughSubject<Int, Never>() var data: Int { didSet { publisher.send(data) } } ... } // Usage var tasks = Set<AnyCancellable>() let actor = MyActor() Task { let publisher = await actor.publisher publisher.sink { print($0) }.store(in: &tasks) } This seems like this should be acceptable. I would expect a Publisher to be thread safe, and as long as the Output is a value type things should be fine. I have been getting random EXC_BAD_ACCESS errors when using this approach. But turning on the address sanitizer causes these crashes to go away. I know that isn't very specific but I wanted to start by seeing if this type of pattern is ok to do.
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Apr ’25
Crash with Progress type, Swift 6, iOS 18
We are getting a crash _dispatch_assert_queue_fail when the cancellationHandler on NSProgress is called. We do not see this with iOS 17.x, only on iOS 18. We are building in Swift 6 language mode and do not have any compiler warnings. We have a type whose init looks something like this: init( request: URLRequest, destinationURL: URL, session: URLSession ) { progress = Progress() progress.kind = .file progress.fileOperationKind = .downloading progress.fileURL = destinationURL progress.pausingHandler = { [weak self] in self?.setIsPaused(true) } progress.resumingHandler = { [weak self] in self?.setIsPaused(false) } progress.cancellationHandler = { [weak self] in self?.cancel() } When the progress is cancelled, and the cancellation handler is invoked. We get the crash. The crash is not reproducible 100% of the time, but it happens significantly often. Especially after cleaning and rebuilding and running our tests. * thread #4, queue = 'com.apple.root.default-qos', stop reason = EXC_BREAKPOINT (code=1, subcode=0x18017b0e8) * frame #0: 0x000000018017b0e8 libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_assert_queue_fail + 116 frame #1: 0x000000018017b074 libdispatch.dylib`dispatch_assert_queue + 188 frame #2: 0x00000002444c63e0 libswift_Concurrency.dylib`swift_task_isCurrentExecutorImpl(swift::SerialExecutorRef) + 284 frame #3: 0x000000010b80bd84 MyTests`closure #3 in MyController.init() at MyController.swift:0 frame #4: 0x000000010b80bb04 MyTests`thunk for @escaping @callee_guaranteed @Sendable () -&gt; () at &lt;compiler-generated&gt;:0 frame #5: 0x00000001810276b0 Foundation`__20-[NSProgress cancel]_block_invoke_3 + 28 frame #6: 0x00000001801774ec libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_call_block_and_release + 24 frame #7: 0x0000000180178de0 libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_client_callout + 16 frame #8: 0x000000018018b7dc libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_root_queue_drain + 1072 frame #9: 0x000000018018bf60 libdispatch.dylib`_dispatch_worker_thread2 + 232 frame #10: 0x00000001012a77d8 libsystem_pthread.dylib`_pthread_wqthread + 224 Any thoughts on why this is crashing and what we can do to work-around it? I have not been able to extract our code into a simple reproducible case yet. And I mostly see it when running our code in a testing environment (XCTest). Although I have been able to reproduce it running an app a few times, it's just less common.
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Apr ’25
MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork crashes on Swift 6
Hey all! in my personal quest to make future proof apps moving to Swift 6, one of my app has a problem when setting an artwork image in MPNowPlayingInfoCenter Here's what I'm using to set the metadata func setMetadata(title: String? = nil, artist: String? = nil, artwork: String? = nil) async throws { let defaultArtwork = UIImage(named: "logo")! var nowPlayingInfo = [ MPMediaItemPropertyTitle: title ?? "***", MPMediaItemPropertyArtist: artist ?? "***", MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork: MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: defaultArtwork.size) { _ in defaultArtwork } ] as [String: Any] if let artwork = artwork { guard let url = URL(string: artwork) else { return } let (data, response) = try await URLSession.shared.data(from: url) guard (response as? HTTPURLResponse)?.statusCode == 200 else { return } guard let image = UIImage(data: data) else { return } nowPlayingInfo[MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork] = MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: image.size) { _ in image } } MPNowPlayingInfoCenter.default().nowPlayingInfo = nowPlayingInfo } the app crashes when hitting MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork: MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: defaultArtwork.size) { _ in defaultArtwork } or nowPlayingInfo[MPMediaItemPropertyArtwork] = MPMediaItemArtwork(boundsSize: image.size) { _ in image } commenting out these two make the app work again. Again, no clue on why. Thanks in advance
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Sep ’25