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Flight School - essential topics in iOS and macOS development

Today, I’m excited to announce updates to our guides to Swift Codable and Numbers, as well as a brand new Guide to Swift Strings. Everything is up-to-date with the latest from Swift 5 and Xcode 10.2, and now — for the first time — available in print!

If you dig NSHipster, you’ll love Flight School. Amazing cover design! I love it when the cover of a book makes you want to read it.

Flight School - essential topics in iOS and macOS development

Mattt Thompson nshipster.com

Bundles and packages

Mattt over at NSHipster explains two important abstractions on Apple platforms: bundles and packages.

Despite being distinct concepts, the terms “bundle” and “package” are frequently used interchangeably. Part of this is undoubtedly due to their similar names, but perhaps the main source of confusion is that many bundles just so happen to be packages (and vice versa).

So before we go any further, let’s define our terminology: …

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