Context: I'm writing a Mac desktop app that allows for online/offline composition and transmission of messages. So, the UI allows the user to compose a message and then say, effectively, "I'm done with this, send it when you can." Then I want to have a background process that monitors network state and attempts to send/receive messages when the network is available.

• UI - reads messages from the 'incoming' queue and puts them into the application's data store

• UI - writes messages to the 'outgoing' queue

• worker - reads messages from the 'outgoing' queue and attempts to write them to a network service

• worker - reads messages from a network service and writes them to the 'incoming' queue

• UI - maybe has a button like, "Toggle online/offline" that signals the worker to start trying to do stuff or to pause, as may be

I know how to do all this in Java, using locks and threadpools to manage read/write access to the incoming/outgoing message queues, etc. However, I'm trying to do all this in Swift, so I've been reading up on concurrency and I haven't seen analogous structures. So, what's the Swift way of doing this?

Maybe this article points you in a good direction?

Working with an Internet Connection on iOS with Swift It's dated Aug 2020 so seems recent enough.

Plus there's a section titled Enabling or Disabling App Features Based on Internet Connection which seems to be what you've described above.

Good luck!

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What I think you looking for is to use the Combine API. Mark Moeykens from Big Mountain Studio does a great and clear book on the subject Combine Mastery in SwiftUI. Hope that will help.