Mobile App Development 2022W Lecture 4

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Notes

Lecture 4
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Remember that in swift, references by default always have a value
 - they won't have "nil"

But sometimes operations won't return a valid value
 - i.e., looking something up in a dictionary, getting user input

So swift forces us to handle the case of it being nil before it allows
us to use the data

The idea of optional types and unwrapping optional types is all about changing runtime errors (oops, the value is nil when it should have been something valid) into a compile time error.

Notice in Swift we don't normally deal with "exceptions"
 - errors are handled where they are generated generally

Any view can have @State variables

We use @Binding to share variables between views
 - one declares it with @State
 - the other references it using @Binding
 - The declaring one must then include the @Binding one, connecting
   the variables as part of the inclusion.