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Fetching Remote Data With Async/Await In Recent And Older System Versions
It’s finally quite simple to fetch data easily in Swift!
Performing asynchronous tasks has always been part of the game when building applications for Apple systems. Up until not that long ago, closures and completion handlers had been the main way to handle asynchronous code. A -definitely better- alternative came with the arrival of the Combine framework and its declarative API, where series of operators creating pipelines have been offering a different approach. But the real revolution in my humble opinion actually occurred in Swift with the async/await pattern, which literally transformed the way we write asynchronous code.
The entire async/await concept introduced in WWDC21 constitutes a big, but relatively easy chapter that is really worth the time to study. It’s the future in dealing with asynchronous work in Swift, so adopting it is not a matter of “if”, but “when”. With that in mind, I’m focusing on a quite specific technique in this post; how to fetch data from a remote server using async/await.
At the time of writing this post, the major version on iOS is 15, and on macOS is 12. There are specific new available APIs that make remote data fetching feel like a breeze. But (there is always a “but”) even though async/await…
