Great work!
On 20 October 2014 18:03, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Awesome!!
On Oct 20, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi all,
today we are proud to announce AeroGear-iOS 2.0 codename ‘Swift’. It was
not long time ago, at WWDC 2014, where Apple announced the Swift
programming language and took developers by surprise, and for a good
reason. It provides a modern and familiar syntax that borrows proven
concepts from various languages (including functional ones). Developers who
were reluctant to try objective-c because of it’s C and C++ heritage and
it’s somehow ‘obscure' syntax, now have a reason to look again (and judging
from their responses liked what they saw)
As apple stated in their blog [1]
*"Swift is ready to use today, in brand new apps or alongside your proven
Objective-C code. We have big plans for the Swift language, including
improvements to syntax, and powerful new features..“*
We immediately understood the importance of the new language and jumped
in. Today we are releasing the first 'fruits' of our endeavour, and in
particular:
- *aerogear-ios-http* [2]
A networking library built on top of NSURLSession offering a convenient
API for accessing RESTful services, performing download/upload (including
multipart) as well as extension points to provide your own serialisers for
request / response (with JSON serialisers be the default)
- *aerogear-ios-oauth2 *[3]
An OAuth2 module build on top of 'aerogear-ios-http’ supporting common
providers such as Google, Facebook and our own JBoss solution Keycloak[4] .
A pluggable system is also provided so external developers you plug-in
their own support for their favorite provider. You can read more of this
integration (including a screencast) on the excellent blog post written
from my friend Corinne [5]
-*aerogear-ios-push [7]*
If you are using AeroGear Unified Push Server[8] and our iOS push-sdk in
your objective-c applications, we are happy to announce that we have ported
the SDK to Swift including all our demos[9] and quick starts[10]. No more
messing with 'Bridging Headers' and the like. Just drag and drop the
framework in your own application and you are ready to go.
-*aerogear-ios-httpstub [11]*
A handy networking stub library written entirely in swift developed to
support our efforts, but it can be possible proved useful in your own
projects too.
Now, regarding our 1.6.x branch of aerogear-ios we have decided to cease
the development of that branch (apart from critical bug fixes) and focus
all our efforts in porting the libraries to Swift. Already the base
functionality has been ported (and hopefully improved) but we still have a
long way to go. Most importantly our OTP and Crypto functionality libraries
haven’t been ported yet (but we are planning to), but still they are useful
on their own right in your objective-c projects (or in Swift if you decide
to go with a mixed environment)
Last but not least,
Swift as a language is improving rapidly and only recently has been tagged
as an 1.0 release[12]. Real world usage though showed that still has a long
way to go. As an iOS team though we will work hard to update our ‘current’
and ‘future’ libraries with latest developments so expect to see frequent
releases in that front.
So give our libraries and demos[13] a try, we will be happy to hear your
thoughts and suggestions.
Enjoy!
++
Corinne && Christos
[1]
https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=2
[2]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-http/tree/0.1
[3]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-oauth2/tree/0.1
[4]
http://keycloak.jboss.org
[5]
http://corinnekrych.org/2014/10/aerogear-with-keycloak-oauth2-friends.html
[7]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-push/zipball/2.0.0
[8]
http://aerogear.org/push/
[9]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-push-helloworld/tree/swift/ios-swift
[10]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-push-quickstarts/tree/swift
[11]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-httpstub/tree/0.1
[12]
https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=14
[13]
https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-cookbook
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