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Best solution for using SQLite in your Swift project is SQLite Swift. It works perfect and comes with very good documentation.

A problem I was facing was converting a field value to an integer.

In short, this was the problematic code:


let db = try Connection(databasePath)
let stmt = try db.prepare("SELECT someId, someCount, someName FROM someTable")
        
for row in stmt {
    print("row[1] = \(String(describing: row[1]))")
    // ... I need row[1] as Integer!
}

I needed to convert row[1] to an Integer.
I tried many solution, found on multiple forums, none of them really worked.
Finally I came up with this:


let db = try Connection(databasePath)
let stmt = try db.prepare("SELECT someId, someCount, someName FROM someTable")
        
for row in stmt {
    let optionalCount : Int64 = Optional(row[1]) as! Int64
    let lCount = Int(optionalCount)
    // Now I have an integer!

 }

Happy Coding!

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The fastest way of coding is doing a lot of copy-paste. I know, you shouldn’t. But most of us do … so lets be honest about that 🙂

Following some copy-paste-ready Swift code for sending e-mails form your iOS app.



//  MailerViewController.swift

import UIKit

import MessageUI

class MailerViewController: UIViewController, MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate {

override func viewDidLoad() {

super.viewDidLoad()

let mSubject = "The subject of the e-mail"

let mBody = "Hi! This is an e-mail. Please se the attached file."

let mRecipients = ["info@devjockeys.com", "martin@devjockeys.com", "some_recipient@some_email.com"]

let mAttachment = "Some content".data(using: String.Encoding.utf8, allowLossyConversion: false)!

let mAttachmentName = "attachment_filename.txt"

doEmail(subject: mSubject, body: mBody, recipients: mRecipients, attachment: mAttachment, attachmentName: mAttachmentName)

}

func doEmail(subject: String, body: String, recipients: Array, attachment: Data, attachmentName: String ) {

if MFMailComposeViewController.canSendMail() {

let mailer = MFMailComposeViewController()

mailer.mailComposeDelegate = self

// the subject
mailer.setSubject(subject)

// the recepients: an Array of Strings
mailer.setToRecipients(recipients)

// make an attachment. You can attach anything, as long as it is a "Data?" object
mailer.addAttachmentData(attachment, mimeType: "application/octet-stream", fileName: attachmentName)

// the message body
mailer.setMessageBody(body, isHTML: false)

// present the mailer
self.present(mailer, animated: true, completion: nil)

}

else

{

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Mail Error", message: "Your device has not been configured to send e-mails", preferredStyle: .alert)

let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: .default, handler: nil)

alert.addAction(okAction)

self.present(alert,animated: true,completion: nil)

}
}

// mailer delegate

func mailComposeController(_ controller: MFMailComposeViewController, didFinishWith result: MFMailComposeResult, error: Error?) {

var  message = ""

switch (result)

{

case .cancelled: message = "You cancelled the operation and no e-mail message was sent."
case .saved: message = "You saved the e-mail message in the drafts folder."
case .sent: message = "Mail send: e-mail message sent successfully."
case .failed: message = "Mail failed: the e-mail message was not sent. Please check your e-mail settings."

}

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Mailer", message: message, preferredStyle: .alert)
let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: .default, handler: nil)
alert.addAction(okAction)

self.present(alert,animated: true,completion: nil)

// Remove the mail view
self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)

}

}

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This code sample demonstrates how you can reorder an array.

A possible scenario is when you have multiple-choise questions that you want to present in a different order every time they are shown.

var arrUniqueNumbers = [1,2,3,4]        
print("Array before shuffle: \(arrUniqueNumbers)")    
let count = arrUniqueNumbers.count
for i in 0..<count{
            let n = Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(count-i)))+i            
            (arrUniqueNumbers[i], arrUniqueNumbers[n]) = 
                              (arrUniqueNumbers[n], arrUniqueNumbers[i])
           }
print("Array after shuffle: \(arrUniqueNumbers)")