iosswiftcocoa-touchguidcore-foundation

Generate a UUID on iOS from Swift

In my iOS Swift app I want to generate random UUID (GUID) strings for use as a table key, and this snippet appears to work:

let uuid = CFUUIDCreateString(nil, CFUUIDCreate(nil))

Is this safe?

Or is there perhaps a better (recommended) approach?

Solution

  • Try this one:

    let uuid = NSUUID().uuidString
print(uuid)

    Swift 3/4/5

    let uuid = UUID().uuidString
print(uuid)