The latest and greatest in iPhone Apps
Github, the most popular open source repository for open source software, offers a feature that let's us view repositories by language. In this post, I want to dissect some of the most popular Swift repositories as of June 5th, 2015. So, let's kick it off with the most starred Swift repository, Alamofire. Alamofire Alamofire is an "Elegant HTTP Networking in…
This post has been updated for compatibility with XCode 8 and iOS 10 Local notifications are a simple way to display information to your user even when your app is in the background. They allow you to display an alert, play a sound or badge your app’s icon. Local notifications can be triggered at a scheduled time or when your user enters…
This post has been updated for compatibility with XCode 8 and iOS 10 In part 1 of this series, we created a simple to-do list application that used local notifications to alert users when to-do items were overdue. This time, we’re going to build on that the project by enabling application icon badges to display the number of overdue items and…
“Should I learn Objective-C or Swift first?" I get asked this question a lot. Sometime's people will also ask about learning C or C++ first. So, I want to take a moment and give you the low-down on how I feel as a professional iOS & Mac developer, six months after Swift’s introduction. If this is your first time here,…
This post compatible with Xcode 6.3 Beta, Updated on February 16, 2015 Don't have 6.3 yet? Make sure to download it here using your iOS Developer account. Core Data is the de facto standard way to persist and manage data in both iPhone and Mac applications, and with Swift it's a bit easier. So it's only natural that we should…
One of my readers, Andrew VanWagoner, decided to put together a short tutorial that follows up the iOS 8 Swift Tutorial I put together last month. So I'm sharing it here with you all! Andrew is a Senior Software Engineer working for Adobe in Lehi, Utah. You can find out more about Andrew at his site, http://thetalecrafter.com/ or follow him…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 17, 2015 In parts 1 through 6 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from iTunes inside of them. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part 1…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 16, 2015 In parts 1 through 5 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from iTunes inside of them. If you haven't read that yet, check out Part 1…
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 8.3.1, as of April 17, 2017 In part 1 we went over some basics of Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some text inside of them. If you haven’t read that yet, give it a read here. For this section, we’re…
Swift Tutorial This tutorial updated to reflect changes in Xcode 8.3.1 and iOS 10, as of April 17, 2017 Apple announced at WWDC a major change to the way iOS apps are developed, it can now be done using a new programming language called Swift. In my efforts to adapt and learn the language’s common patterns and best practices, I…