Generate a UUID on iOS from Swift

Question

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 = CFUU         


        

Answer 1

You could also just use the NSUUID API:

let uuid = NSUUID()

If you want to get the string value back out, you can use uuid.UUIDString.

Note that NSUUID is available from iOS 6 and up.