SwiftyTimer is a set of extensions to make the NSTimer API cleaner, nicer to use, and at home with Swift's syntax.

Read Swifty APIs: NSTimer for more information about this project.

You can easily schedule repeating and non-repeating timers (repeats and delays) using NSTimer.every and NSTimer.after:

NSTimer.every(0.7.seconds){ statusItem.blink()}NSTimer.after(1.minute){println("Are you still here?")}

SwiftyTimer uses closures instead of target/selector/userInfo.

You can specify time intervals with intuitive Ruby on Rails-like helpers:

1.second 2.5.seconds 5.seconds 10.minutes 1.hour

You can pass method references instead of closures:

NSTimer.every(30.seconds, align)

If you want to make a timer object without scheduling, use new(after:) and new(every:):

lettimer=NSTimer.new(every:1.second){println(self.status)}

(This should be defined as an initializer, but a bug in Swift prevents this)

The simplest way to install this library is to copy Src/SwiftyTimer.swift to your project. There's no step two!

You can also install this library using CocoaPods. Just add this line to your Podfile:

pod'SwiftyTimer'

Then import library module like so:

import SwiftyTimer

Note that this requires CocoaPods 0.36+, as well as iOS 8 or OS X 10.9+

If you have comments, complaints or ideas for improvements, feel free to open an issue or a pull request.

Radek Pietruszewski

• github.com/radex
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• radex.io
• [email protected]

SwiftyTimer is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.