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Andrew .
Andrew .
1,830 Points
Posted by Andrew .
Andrew .
1,830 Points

i need help making a timer in swift

I've been trying to make a timer for a project in xcode 8 but everything I am using doesn't work. can someone please tell me what code I need to make a timer because everything I find online is outdated or too complicated. I just want a simple counter that adds 1 every second to a label with swift only. the closest I got to adding the timer was having everything but it said I needed to update to objc to execute the code...

1 Answer

landonferrier
landonferrier
25,097 Points

Andrew,

You can use this method to create a timer in Xcode 8: 

[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:2.0
    target:self
    selector:@selector(targetMethod:)
    userInfo:nil
    repeats:NO];

Here, a new timer is being scheduled after two seconds which will call the targetMethod. If you would like the timer to repeat, replace NO with YES.