Most of the people I encounter these days with a tech startup are focusing on the web or mobile. They either have an idea that they want to push out to the app store, or a web service which may or may not have a mobile companion. The tech world as the startup scene sees…
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Tutorial: Night Mode Support in iOS 13 and Swift 5
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…
Mobile First & Declining Usability
Mobile App Design is Fashion Mobile app design moves very quickly, and with “mobile-first” thinking becoming the mantra of designers of all kinds, it is a leading indicator for design of just about everything else. So, I think it’s important to take a step back and analyze how apps are designed today. In this I…
Fun with CAShapeLayer
CAShapeLayer is a specialized subclass of CALayer that draws itself using the shape you define via the path property. path is an instance of CGPath. We could leverage the convenient UIBezierPath APIs to create a path, and then retrieve the CGPath from it. Besides all the animatable properties inherited from CALayer, there are other animatable…
Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6 Beta 2 – The best update yet
The big news in the Swift community is the release of Swift 1.2, featuring some awesome features. Apple wrote about that a bit here, this was before they released Xcode 6.3 Beta 2, which came out today. But it contains most of the major language changes. Xcode 6.3 Beta 2 First of all, Xcode itself…
Should I learn Objective-C or Swift first?
“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…
Core Data in Swift Tutorial (Part 2)
This post compatible with Xcode 6.3, Updated on February 16, 2015 This is part two of a tutorial series covering the usage of Core Data in Swift to write iOS apps with persistence. If you haven’t read part one yet, read that first. If you really want to get your feet wet, my Swift book…
Developing iOS Apps Using Swift Part 3 – Best Practices
This section completely updated to reflect changes in Xcode 6.3, as of April 16, 2015 In parts 1 & 2 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…
Developing iOS Apps Using Swift Tutorial Part 2
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…
Swift Tutorial – Developing iOS Apps Part 1
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…