Exploring Xcode Playground (Part 1)

In the same year that Swift language was released (2014), Apple integrated Playground function into Xcode. Compared to standard Xcode projects, Playground launches faster, is lighter, and is widely used for Swift language learning, framework API testing, quick data processing, collecting inspirations, and many other purposes. This series will introduce a large number of tips on using Xcode Playground, involving stability, third-party libraries, resource management, asynchronous processing, document annotation, etc., allowing you to explore Playground and make it a useful tool in your work and learning.

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Creation and Configuration

.playground vs .playgroundbook

The Playground project created in Xcode is saved as a package with a .playground suffix (the files can be viewed by…