Swift Concurrency by Example

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Swift's powerful and flexible concurrency system includes async/await, tasks, actors, and more, but if you want to unleash its full power it's important you understand all the available choices and what sets them apart.

That's where Swift Concurrency by Example comes in: written as a series of tutorials, Swift Concurrency by Example guides you through dozens of common coding problems with hands-on solutions so you can spend less time wondering how to accomplish tasks and more time building your apps.

This is the download edition of the online book, but includes over 50 videos of chapters from the book!

What's in the book?

Dozens of common problems are solved in the book, including:

• When to use async/await and when async let works better
• How to call the first async function in your project
• Upgrading your code to concurrency using continuations
• Creating custom async sequences and streams
• Running work in parallel using tasks and task groups
• Sleeping, suspending, and cancelling work
• Actors and actor reentrancy
• Writing unit tests with Swift Testing and XCTest

And more!

Download a free sample!

You can download the complete table of contents for this book here, or a 24-page sample PDF here.

Prefer to read for free?

This is the download edition of Swift Concurrency by Example that gives you the PDF and ePub for offline reading, but if you'd rather read for free online you can find the book online here: free Swift concurrency tutorials.

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