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iOS Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS Programming Cookbook Over 50 exciting and powerful recipes to help you unearth the promise of iOS programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460981
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 2. The Essentials 3. Integrating with Messages App 4. Working with Interface Builder 5. Working with UITableView 6. Animations and Graphics 7. Multimedia 8. Concurrency 9. Location Services 10. Security and Encryption 11. Networking 12. Persisting Data with Core Data 13. Notifications 14. App Search 15. Optimizing Performance

Using Operation queues

In OperationQueue, we will see another way to perform concurrency in iOS. OperationQueue is a higher-level abstraction of the queue model; on the other hand, GCD is a lower-level C API. OperationQueue is built on top of GCD but in a more object-oriented fashion. In this section, we will perform the same demo but with OperationQueue, and we will see how simple it is, as with GCD.

Getting ready

Before getting started with OperationQueue, let's talk about how it is different from GCD:

  1. It doesn't follow FIFO and doesn't conform to First-In-First-Out like GCD. There are two reasons why it doesn't stick to FIFO. The first one is that you can set an execution priority to the operations...
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