How to create and use a global actor in Swift

The following tutorial walks you through how to create a global actor through the lens of our NotificationCoordinator - a singleton intended to act as the center for sending type-checked notifications.

This singleton is available as part of our Open Source Swift Starter Project that is available in the link below.

Create a singleton class and :

• Replace the class attribute with actor.
• Assign the @globalActor annotation to make it conform to the protocol.
  
• Make sure that it has a shared property that acts as the singleton.

Subsequently, create any additional functionality that may be required. We recommend you do this in extensions that separate code into specific functionality.

As a Global Actor must conform to concurrency, every action that you take with it must be wrapped in a task and must use async/await.

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