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Swift Cookbook

You're reading from   Swift Cookbook Over 50 hands-on recipes to help you create apps, solve problems, and build your portfolio of projects in Swift

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784391379
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Xcode and Swift FREE CHAPTER 2. Standard Library and Collections 3. Using Structs and Generics 4. Design Patterns with Swift 5. Multitasking 6. Playground 7. Swift Debugging with Xcode 8. Integrating with Objective-C 9. Dealing with Other Languages 10. Data Access 11. Miscellaneous Index

Watching the temperature


When Xerox engineers created the Window system based on Smalltalk, they brought a big concept to the computer world—the idea of analog representation on digital devices (computer).

This means that for us, human beings, it is easier to understand how long a process will take watching a progress bar instead of watching a percentage on screen. Here, we will watch some colors instead of numbers.

In this recipe, we will watch the color of a temperature instead of watching its value; this way, you can have a better idea about the chill.

Getting ready

Open your Xcode and create a new playground called Chapter 6 Color, remove the str string, but leave the UIKit import as it is.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a playground that will watch the temperature:

  1. First of all, let's create an array with temperatures; in this case, the temperatures are measured in Celsius degrees:

    var temperatures = [15, 8, 3, -1, 2, 3, 3, 9, 14, 18, 23, 27, 30, 34, 20, 30, 35, 39, 41]
  2. The next...

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