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I know questions like this exist on both Stack Overflow and elsewhere. But it seems to have evolved a lot as well. Given a list of UInt8 (a swift byte array basically), what is the easiest/idiomatic way to covert it to a swift String ? I'm particularly interested in the method that doesn't use NSData/NSString, since if Santa brings Swift to the world of Linux, it will undoubtedly be without the NS libraries, and I'd like to know how to do it in just Swift. let buffUInt8: Array<UInt8> = [97, 98, 115, 100, 114, 102, 103, 104, 0] // you need Int8 array let buffInt8 = buffUInt8.map{ Int8

This question already has an answer here: Transparent background for modally presented viewcontroller 4 answers I know this topic is quite popular, but I'm a little iniciate problem in a programming language, the fact is that I still do not understand where I put the code. Well, I'll tell the whole case: I'm trying to make a modal Swift in a little different from normal: By clicking on a button, the ViewController is displayed (following modal type) on the screen, but with transparent background. Only the blue View with label will be displayed. When this ViewController is presented, it is with