How to use Optionals in Swift | Swift Basics #6

Master the concept of optionals in Swift with this comprehensive tutorial! Learn how to handle optional values and avoid runtime errors by unwrapping optionals safely. Understand the power of optional binding and nil coalescing to gracefully handle optional values in your code. Gain the skills to work with optional chaining and handle optional types effectively. Start your journey to becoming a skilled Swift developer today and harness the flexibility and safety that optionals bring to your code!

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00:00 Optionals
00:00 Intro
02:23 Welcome back!
03:33 Optionals
06:26 Unwrapping using Nil Coalescing Operator
09:57 Any Type can be Optional!
11:38 Examples
14:10 Unwrapping using If-Let Statement
19:24 Unwrapping using Guard Statement
23:40 iOS Interview Question
24:33 Complex If-Let
32:12 Complex Guard
33:48 Guard vs If-Let
34:37 Nested If-Let
39:45 Nested Guard
43:18 Optional Chaining
49:38 Review
50:16 Explicitly Unwrapping Optionals
53:02 Wrapping up