The date of my last post was June 30, 2017. It's been longer than I thought... I haven't been writing anything here simply because I haven't been making iOS apps lately, and instead have been involved in entrepreneurial ventures where writing code isn't usually the top priority for me. It's been quite a dramatic shift in the type of work…
ARKit Tutorial in Swift 4 for Xcode 9 In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to work with ARKit, the new Framework from Apple that allows us to easily create Augmented Reality experiences in our iOS apps. The first thing to know about ARKit is that it can be used in three major ways: Inside of Xcode writing…
With the release of iOS 11, for the first time third-party developers are able to use the NFC reader on devices iPhone 7 and higher. This could be used for passing along identification information and a whole host of other data exchange applications from door locks to subway passes. The technology used on iOS 11 is called Core NFC, and…
ARKit is the "largest AR platform in the world" according to Apple's latest keynote address from WWDC 2017. So what can it do? Well, as we saw in the demos, ARKit enabled features for surface tracking, depth perception, and integrated with existing libraries from the game development world. Note: If you're here to learn how to make ARKit apps, I've…
Core ML, announced at WWDC 2017 is a new set of APIs built by Apple for use with iOS 11 or higher devices. With Core ML, developers can incorporate machine learning models in to their mobile apps, and have the inference accelerated using the Metal APIs. This means the processing of models will be significantly faster than using other systems…
Caffe2 in an iOS App Deep Learning Tutorial At this years's F8 conference, Facebook's annual developer event, Facebook announced Caffe2 in collaboration with Nvidia. This framework gives developers yet another tool for building deep learning networks for machine learning. But I am super pumped about this one, because it is specifically designed to operate on mobile devices! So I couldn't…
Swift 3 Tutorial In this Swift 3 tutorial, we'll focus on how beginners may approach going from complete beginner to having a basic grasp on Swift, and we'll be working with Swift 3. We chose to write this tutorial because newcomers will find many tutorials out there that are out of date, so it's not appropriate to simply write a…
Designing Animations with UIViewPropertyAnimator in iOS 10 and Swift 3 This is part of a series of tutorials introducing new features in iOS 10, the Swift programming language, and the new XCode 8 beta, which were just announced at WWDC 16 UIKit in iOS 10 now has "new object-based, fully interactive and interruptible animation support that lets you retain control…
SiriKit Resolutions with Swift 3 in iOS 10 - SiriKit Tutorial (Part 2) This tutorial written on June 20th, 2016 using the Xcode 8 Beta 1, and is using the Swift 3.0 toolchain. This post is a follow-up in a multi-part SiriKit tutorial. If you have not read part 1 yet, I recommend starting there. Resolving requests from SiriKit In…
Creating iMessage Apps with XCode 8 This is part of a series of tutorials introducing new features in iOS 10, the Swift programming language, and the new XCode 8 beta, which were just announced at WWDC 16 Intro Among the most exciting additions in iOS 10 are some of the new app extension types, and the new extension type that…