Hacking Rule Systems & State Machines with Apple's GameplayKit Framework

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Shows how to use Apple’s GameplayKit (rules systems and state machines) beyond games to implement things like text validation or complex payment flows with many states and rules, aiming for improved readability, scalability and reusability. Includes concrete code examples and a GitHub repo demonstrating the approach.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:43What does it solve?
3. 1:45Introduction
4. 2:05GKRuleSystem
5. 3:45Wrapper
6. 5:05Password Validator
7. 5:46Extracting Result
8. 6:52GKState Machine
9. 7:58State Machine Example
10. 10:10Combo
11. 11:42Init State + Fraud Check System
12. 15:14Reading the Result
13. 16:37Other Usecases
14. 18:11Advantages

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