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mobileClematis Aspiring developer Posts: 36 Reg: Oct 21, 2014 Kolkata, India 10,860	confirm \| cancel 10/29/14 02:21 AM (10 years ago) Swift Support Does Swift support in Buzztouch? If I write a plugin in Swift will it be accepted? Title Comments Does Swift support in Buzztouch? If I write a plugin in Swift will it be accepted?

mrDavid BTMods.com Posts: 3936 Reg: May 21, 2011 San Diego, CA 51,910	10/29/14 02:23 AM (10 years ago) Read the swift section of this post, may bring you some insight ;-) https://www.buzztouch.com/blog/2014/06/wwdc-afterthoughts/ Cheers, David Van Beveren http://btmods.com/chat ^ Chat with other BT members live! http://btmods.com/hire ^ Hire MrDavid for one of his services! Comments Read the swift section of this post, may bring you some insight ;-) https://www.buzztouch.com/blog/2014/06/wwdc-afterthoughts/ Cheers, David Van Beveren http://btmods.com/chat ^ Chat with other BT members live! http://btmods.com/hire ^ Hire MrDavid for one of his services!

mobileClematis Aspiring developer Posts: 36 Reg: Oct 21, 2014 Kolkata, India 10,860	10/29/14 02:29 AM (10 years ago) Thanks for sharing this. Its a great news that now I can write plugin using Swift. Comments Thanks for sharing this. Its a great news that now I can write plugin using Swift.

chris1 Code is Art Posts: 3862 Reg: Aug 10, 2012 Austin, TX 50,120	10/29/14 05:52 AM (10 years ago) I don't believe you will be able to. Buzztouch projects are written in Objective-C, not Swift. You can put obj-c in a wrapper to make it work in a swift project, but I haven't heard of any way going the other way. You would need to convert the entire core to Swift first, and then create a Swift plugin. At that point, you lose any benefits associated with the plugin process or Buzztouch in general though. Comments I don't believe you will be able to. Buzztouch projects are written in Objective-C, not Swift. You can put obj-c in a wrapper to make it work in a swift project, but I haven't heard of any way going the other way. You would need to convert the entire core to Swift first, and then create a Swift plugin. At that point, you lose any benefits associated with the plugin process or Buzztouch in general though.

mobileClematis Aspiring developer Posts: 36 Reg: Oct 21, 2014 Kolkata, India 10,860	10/29/14 05:55 AM (10 years ago) Ok... Then it will be better to stick to Objective C for now. Anyways is there any plan to provide the BT_Core in Swift? Comments Ok... Then it will be better to stick to Objective C for now. Anyways is there any plan to provide the BT_Core in Swift?

chris1 Code is Art Posts: 3862 Reg: Aug 10, 2012 Austin, TX 50,120	10/29/14 05:59 AM (10 years ago) Haven't heard of any plans. Probably will happen at "some" point, but I wouldn't expect it anytime soon. There's just not enough benefits for making the switch to warrant the amount of work that would be required at this point. Comments Haven't heard of any plans. Probably will happen at "some" point, but I wouldn't expect it anytime soon. There's just not enough benefits for making the switch to warrant the amount of work that would be required at this point.

mobileClematis Aspiring developer Posts: 36 Reg: Oct 21, 2014 Kolkata, India 10,860	10/29/14 06:04 AM (10 years ago) OK. Thanks. Comments OK. Thanks.

mrDavid BTMods.com Posts: 3936 Reg: May 21, 2011 San Diego, CA 51,910	10/30/14 12:11 AM (10 years ago) @Chris, BT Projects are written in OBJC, but the new Xcode should allow swift code to work in unison, or at least, that's what I thought I understood? I really need to start reading up on the swift documentation, but I only JUST got a good grip on Objective-C, LOL. Cheers, David Van Beveren http://btmods.com/chat ^ Chat with other BT members live! http://btmods.com/hire ^ Hire MrDavid for one of his services! Comments @Chris, BT Projects are written in OBJC, but the new Xcode should allow swift code to work in unison, or at least, that's what I thought I understood? I really need to start reading up on the swift documentation, but I only JUST got a good grip on Objective-C, LOL. Cheers, David Van Beveren http://btmods.com/chat ^ Chat with other BT members live! http://btmods.com/hire ^ Hire MrDavid for one of his services!

chris1 Code is Art Posts: 3862 Reg: Aug 10, 2012 Austin, TX 50,120	10/30/14 07:25 AM (10 years ago) David - to be honest, I haven't dug into Swift much yet. My understanding was that Swift was backward compatible with Obj-C, but not the other way around. But I could be wrong - Apple may have updated iOS8 to handle it either way you go. Comments David - to be honest, I haven't dug into Swift much yet. My understanding was that Swift was backward compatible with Obj-C, but not the other way around. But I could be wrong - Apple may have updated iOS8 to handle it either way you go.

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