Trying out an old iOS App of mine I discovered that some of the buttons weren’t visible in dark mode. So, in this tutorial, with a little extra time I’ve found for reasons that should be quite obvious, I’ll share how to update the UI of your app for night mode. Step 1. Finding the…
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Core NFC Tutorial for NFC on iOS Devices
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…
Swift 3 Tutorial – Fundamentals
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 We chose to write this tutorial because newcomers will find many tutorials out there that are out of date, so it’s not…
Creating an iMessage Sticker App on iOS 10 with Swift – Tutorial (Part 1)
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…
How To Migrate Your App And Protect It From Shutdowns Like Parse’s
How To Migrate Your App And Protect It From Shutdowns Like Parse’s Editor’s Note: This article is written by Reinder de Vries, indie app developer at LearnAppMaking.com. Oh no! Parse is shutting down… How do you move on? On January 28th Parse announced it will be shutting down its service. They’re winding down the done-for-you…
Your Parse backend was always a bad idea.
So if you haven’t heard, Facebook is shutting down Parse, the backend as a service (BaaS) that was acquired by Facebook a little while ago. Lots of developers are feeling a little lost, and even betrayed by Facebook. I tweeted this screen cap someone made from the Parse homepage before the shutdown, and it pretty…
Adding IBInspectable to a superclass in Swift
Adding IBInspectable to a UICollectionViewCell subclass One very useful feature I find is to add a IBInspectable background image to my views. In an entertainment app I’m currently building there is a designable cell that looks like this: @IBDesignableclass TrailerCollectionViewCell: MediaCollectionViewCell { @IBOutlet weak var lengthLabel: UILabel! @IBInspectable weak var bgImage: UIImage! { didSet { imgView.frame = self.bounds self.addSubview(imgView) imgView.image =…
Developing tvOS Apps for Apple TV [Part 1]
Here’s what you’ll have at the end of part 2 of this tutorial if you follow along: Looking for some help building your Apple TV tvOS App? I’m available for consulting and development, contact me. Apple TV Developer Tools Before we get started you’ll need the Xcode 7.1 beta, which you can download here: Download…
Local Notifications in iOS 10 with Swift (Part 1)
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…
Local Notifications in iOS 9+ with Swift (Part 2)
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…