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User experience is extremely dependent on responsive applications. In order to create a fluid and smooth experience for your users, asynchronous operations are required. Users expect an application to be responsive, even during long-running operations such as network access or processing-intensive operations. This chapter covers recipes about threading and concurrency using Swift. There are three approaches to threading in iOS and OS X: NSThread, Grand Central Dispatch, and NSOperationQueue. This chapter covers the following, including those approaches:
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Rogers, T.M. (2015). Concurrency. In: Swift Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0418-4_8
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