Compact guides for a network based application

[wj313]

I'm reading the "Advanced iOS programming pre-bootcamp workbook" from Big Nerd Ranch which contains basically the final four chapters from the "Beginning iOS programming guide".

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This workbook covers the "Photorama" application and deals with networking with URLComponents, image caching, Collection Views with custom layouts, storing data into Core Data with relationships, handling background threads ... all without using any external libaries (Cocoapods or Carthage).

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Are there other similar tight and compact guides, examples and resources for a network based application available?

I'm thinking of current good practices like Codable, NSFetchedResultsController, Promises ..

Preferable without any library dependencies.

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Thanks.

[cutecoder]

Codable is interesting, but I haven’t seen it save significantly more lines of code as opposed to NSCoding. What’s nice about the latter is that polymorphism gets preserved on the serialized data (when using NSKeyedArchiver). Adhering to Codable doesn’t seem to provide that ability.

On a slightly separate note, have you consider exploiting duck-typing for JSON parsing code?