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Re:Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps by K0nserv on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:55PM (#12087691)
Pretty surprising to see Alamofire above AFNetworking given that AFNetworking is the Objective-C variant and Alamofire is for Swift. That almost seems to indicate that there are more Swift apps in the top 200 then Objective-C apps. Of course one can use Alamofire in Objective-C, but that just seems like making your life harder than it needs to be
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Re:Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps by mightyshane on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @02:26PM (#12088487)
We found that interesting too. You can see the apps that upgrade from Objective-C to Swift as well when they uninstall AFNetworking for Alamofire. It's usually accompanied by a huge overhaul of a bunch of SDKs.
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Re:Most Used SDKs in Top 200 Free iOS Apps by skronch on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @06:37PM (#12090252)
Note that these are the top 200 trending apps (not most used or popular iOS apps), so the data set will skew towards newer (and more likely to be written in Swift) apps.
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