Concurrency (GCD, async/await)
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What is Concurrency (GCD, async/await)?
Concurrency in iOS allows multiple tasks to run in parallel to keep the UI responsive. Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) is the traditional approach, using dispatch queues to schedule work on background threads. Swift's async/await syntax, introduced in Swift 5.5, provides a more readable and structured way to write asynchronous code.
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Is this Concurrency (GCD, async/await) tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 26 of 170 in the free iOS roadmap, in stage 5, Core Programming Concepts. If you are new to iOS, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.