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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…
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…
Siri integration on iOS 10 – Swift Tutorial This tutorial written on June 13th, 2016 using the Xcode 8 Beta 1, and is using the Swift 3.0 toolchain. Get Xcode 8 set up for iOS 10 and Swift 3 compilation. If you have not yet downloaded Xcode 8 Beta 1, please do so here. (Optional)…
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…
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…
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 =…
Here’s a common scenario: You have a table view or collection view that has a variety of different types of content. You want to display varying cells based on these types of content, and they’re all mixed within a single section. Pardon the stand-in art, but it looks roughly like this: In the Objective-C world,…
Monday Apple announced Swift 2, and just about everything announced is an extremely welcome change. This post is a summary of Chris Lattner’s discussion in the WWDC video “What’s new in Swift”. Now, let’s run through them… Fundamentals enums can now be printed to the console and show the actually value instead of just (enum…
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…
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…