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Open Source Swift – A Look At The Top Swift Repositories

Posted on June 5, 2015June 5, 2015 by Jameson Quave

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…

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Local Notifications in iOS 10 with Swift (Part 1)

Posted on March 4, 2015September 3, 2018 by Jason Newell

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…

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Local Notifications in iOS 9+ with Swift (Part 2)

Posted on March 4, 2015September 25, 2016 by Jason Newell

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…

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Should I learn Objective-C or Swift first?

Posted on December 30, 2014December 30, 2014 by Jameson Quave

“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…

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Core Data in Swift Tutorial (Part 1)

Posted on October 6, 2014May 30, 2021 by Jameson Quave

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…

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Drawing Custom Views With Swift – Andrew VanWagoner

Posted on July 4, 2014July 23, 2014 by Jameson Quave

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…

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Developing iOS 8 Apps Using Swift – Animations, Audio, and Custom Table View Cells (Part 7)

Posted on June 12, 2014April 17, 2015 by Jameson Quave

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…

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Developing iOS 8 Apps Using Swift – Interaction with multiple views (Part 6)

Posted on June 6, 2014April 16, 2015 by Jameson Quave

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…

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Developing iOS Apps Using Swift Tutorial Part 2

Posted on June 2, 2014April 17, 2017 by Jameson Quave

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…

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Swift Tutorial – Developing iOS Apps Part 1

Posted on June 2, 2014June 15, 2020 by Jameson Quave

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…

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