swift-protobuf VS Kingfisher

https://docs.rs/prost/latest/prost/ crate lets you encode / decode protobuf messages. You can write a message which represents your struct or whatever data type is, set the fields, and then encode it into bytes. Decoding in swift can be done with something like this https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf ig.

I’ve used Protobuf in Swift and it was pretty straightforward. Apple already provides a tool chain [1] so using a third party is a hard sell.

[1] https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf

> Why should they? That isn't their target audience.

Because they need it?

Apple discontinued macOS server, i bet they use Linux in some of their servers

All their networking related libs are available and tested for Linux [1, 2]

Let's not forget that they package Swift for Linux, and now also for Windows [3]

Swift is crossplatform language (you not wanting to understand it doesn't change this fact), it's not a macOS framework

[1] - https://github.com/apple/swift-nio

[2] - https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf/blob/main/.github/wo...

[3] - https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-5-6-2-for-linux-...

Swift Protobuf - Plugin and runtime library for using protobuf with Swift. Language: Swift.

I need to explore using Protobuf -> Swift (https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf) then using the Kotlin Native to Swift interop: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-objc-interop.html

Thanks. I downloaded and installed https://github.com/apple/swift-protobuf. Is that the tool you are talking about? This creates a blank .proto file and generates .pb.swift files but I am stuck on creating the Starlink .proto file. Do you have a StarLink .proto file? I was successful in creating a protoset file but not a .proto file. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

The 3rd party library I use GRDB SwiftyUserDefaults Kingfisher SwiftDate Popovers

Saving URLs definitely the way to go. Would recommend using a library such as Kingfisher to do the image loading/ caching for you.

I also looked into this github library but wanted to first ask if anyone's had any experience using it.

You can checkout Kingfisher library (it downloads image, and caches it). Usage is fairly simple but I would recomment that you create extension for the UIIMageView, somthing in line like this:

In native iOS, most people use Kingfisher, and i'd love to have something as good as that on our RN app. Perhaps just some pure JS library that you could plug on the existing image component, and that would handle the saving-to-disk and fetching of the image?

Kingfisher - Download and cache images

We are using https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher for smooth image loading in collection view. If the image data are not in regular text file, how can we integrate CoreData's blob data with Kingfisher?

Make sure the proper target is selected in the Add to target in the dialog as shown above, then click Add Package button. The package should successfully be added to your project. Now following the same process, this time search for the Kingfisher package using the GitHub URL as the following https://github.com/onevcat/Kingfisher.

Kingfisher - A lightweight, pure-Swift library for downloading and caching images from the web. Language: Swift.