Netsmartz Infotech Interview Questions and Answers

Access controls/modifiers determine the visibility and accessibility of classes, methods, and properties in object-oriented programming.

• public access control allows a class, method, or property to be accessed from anywhere in the code

• open access control allows a class to be subclassed outside of the module where it is defined

• public is commonly used in Swift for most cases, while open is used when you want to allow subclassing from external modules

I use GIT for version control and manage conflicts by resolving them through communication and collaboration.

• Regularly commit changes to keep track of progress

• Pull latest changes before making any updates to avoid conflicts

• Communicate with team members to resolve conflicts efficiently

• Use tools like Git merge or Git rebase to resolve conflicts

• Document resolution process for future reference

Optional binding in Swift helps to safely unwrap optionals and check for nil values.

• Use if let or guard let to safely unwrap optionals and bind the value to a new constant or variable.

• Check for nil values before using the unwrapped value to avoid runtime errors.

• Example: if let name = optionalName { print(name) }

• Example: guard let age = optionalAge else { return }

Weak & Unowned references are used in ARC to prevent retain cycles in Swift programming.

• Weak references do not increase the retain count of an object, and automatically become nil when the object is deallocated.

• Unowned references do not keep a strong reference to the object, and can become a dangling pointer if the object is deallocated.

• ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) is a memory management system used in Swift to automatically manage memory for objects.

Autoclosure is a feature in Swift that automatically wraps an expression in a closure.

• Autoclosure is used to delay evaluation of an expression until it is actually needed.

• It is commonly used with functions that take closures as arguments, allowing the caller to pass in a regular value instead of a closure.

• Autoclosures are created by adding @autoclosure attribute before the closure's parameter type.