OSX Swift open URL in default browser

Question

How to open a url in system default browser by using Swift as programming language and OSX as plattform.

I found a lot with UIApplication like

UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(NSURL(string: object.url))

but this works just on iOS and not on OSX

And the Launch Services, I found has no examples for swift and there is a lot deprecated for OSX 10.10

Any help welcome - thanks.

Answer 1

Swift 3 or later

import Cocoa

let url = URL(string: "https://www.google.com")!
if NSWorkspace.shared.open(url) {
    print("default browser was successfully opened")

}

Answer 2

For MacOS, you can use this:

let url = URL(string: "https://www.stackoverflow.com")!
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().openURL(url))

For iOS, you can use the following:

let url = NSURL(string: "https://google.com")!
UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(url)

You have to unwrap NSURL.