Präsentation at Swift Berlin

1. Beyond JSON
@iceX33
Game developer at Wooga

2. What was the most
discussed topic of Swift
community?

3. JSON parsing!

4. What if I tell you there is
another way?

5. Meet FlatBuffers
It was originally created at Google
for game development and other
performance-critical applications.

6. FlatBuffers
is an efficient cross platform
serialization library for C++, Java,
C#, Go, Python and JavaScript (C,
PHP & Ruby in progress).

7. FlatBuffersSwift

8. What is so good about
FlatBuffers?

9. There is no parsing
involved!!!
Reading data can be done lazy
(almost zero cost)

10. It's backwards and
forwards compatible
new code can read old data
&
old code can read new data

11. It's not human readable
And it's a good thing!
(Easy to encrypt and to compress)

12. FlatBuffers Swift has a really nice API:
let data = NSData(contentsOfFile: "contactList.bin")!
let byteArray = UnsafePointer<UInt8>(data.bytes)
let contactList = ContactList.fromByteArray(byteArray)
if let birthday = contactList.entries[5]?.birthday {
birthday.day = 12
birthday.month = 6
}
let newData = config.toByteArray

13. If you are interested or
want to get involved?
https://github.com/mzaks/
FlatBuffersSwift