This document introduces FlatBuffers as an efficient cross-platform serialization library that avoids the overhead of JSON parsing. It has backwards and forwards compatibility, can be compressed or encrypted easily since it is not human-readable, and FlatBuffersSwift provides a nice API for working with FlatBuffer data in Swift applications. The document encourages exploring FlatBuffers further and links to the FlatBuffersSwift GitHub repository.

1. Beyond JSON
@iceX33

2. What was the most
discussed topic of Swift
community?

3. JSON parsing!

5. What if I tell you there is
another way?

6. Meet FlatBuffers
It was originally created at Google
for game development and other
performance-critical applications.

7. FlatBuffers
is an efficient cross platform
serialization library for C++, Java,
C#, Go, Python and JavaScript (C,
PHP & Ruby in progress).

8. FlatBuffersSwift

9. What is so good about
FlatBuffers?

10. There is no parsing
involved!!!
Reading data can be done lazy
(almost zero cost)

11. It's backwards and
forwards compatible
new code can read old data
&
old code can read new data

12. It's not human readable
And it's a good thing!
(Easy to encrypt and to compress)

13. {
"name": "maxim",
"age" : 34
}

14. 12, 0, 0, 0,
8, 0,
12, 0,
4, 0,
8, 0,
8, 0, 0, 0,
8, 0, 0, 0,
34, 0, 0, 0,
5, 0, 0, 0,
109, 97, 120, 105, 109

15. FlatBuffers Swift has a really nice API:
let person = Person(name: "maxim", age: 34)
person.toByteArray

16. FlatBuffers Swift has a really nice API:
let person = Person.LazyAccess(data: fbData)
let age = person.age

17. If you are interested or
want to get involved?
https://github.com/mzaks/
FlatBuffersSwift

18. Thank you
@iceX33