Glossary

Short, plain-language definitions of the terms used across The App Code.

Codable

A Swift protocol (Encodable & Decodable) that lets a type be converted to and from formats like JSON automatically.

Coroutine

A suspendable computation used in Kotlin to write asynchronous code sequentially, without blocking a thread.

Debounce

A technique that delays running a function until a burst of calls has paused for a set time, coalescing rapid events into one.

ISO 8601

An international standard for representing dates and times as text, such as 2026-07-02T15:14:00Z, favoured for machine interchange.

Optional

A type that represents either a value or its absence (nil/null), making missing-value handling explicit at compile time.

Promise

A JavaScript object representing the eventual result of an async operation, resolved with a value or rejected with an error.