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Swift: Developing iOS Applications
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Swift: Developing iOS Applications

by Andrew J Wagner, Giordano Scalzo, Jon Hoffman
August 2016
Intermediate to advanced
1027 pages
23h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Projects

Now that we have a pretty good understanding of Objective-C, let's discuss what Objective-C code looks like in a project. Unlike the Swift code, Objective-C is written in two different types of files. One of the types is called a header file and ends in the extension h. The other type is called an implementation file and ends in the extension m.

Before we can really discuss what the difference is between the two, we first have to discuss code exposure. In Swift, all the code you write is accessible to all other code in your project. This is not true with Objective-C. In Objective-C, you must explicitly indicate that you want to have access to the code in another file.

Header files

The header files are the types of files that can be included ...

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