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iOS Dev Nugget 123 Using dynamicType in Swift

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A quick tip this week. If you have been using the object_getClassName() function when using Objective C to print out the class of an object, you can use dynamicType to do it in Swift:

var s = "abc"
println("class name: \(s.dynamicType)")

In addition, you can use dynamicType to create a new instance of the class:

var type = s.dynamicType
var anotherInstance = type() //Like String()


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