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 ways: Inside of Xcode writing…
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 We chose to write this tutorial because newcomers will find many tutorials out there that are out of date, so it's not appropriate to simply write a…
Designing Animations with UIViewPropertyAnimator in iOS 10 and Swift 3 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 UIKit in iOS 10 now has "new object-based, fully interactive and interruptible animation support that lets you retain control…
SiriKit Resolutions with Swift 3 in iOS 10 - SiriKit Tutorial (Part 2) This tutorial written on June 20th, 2016 using the Xcode 8 Beta 1, and is using the Swift 3.0 toolchain. This post is a follow-up in a multi-part SiriKit tutorial. If you have not read part 1 yet, I recommend starting there. Resolving requests from SiriKit In…
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) Compiling from the command line…
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, it was typical to just…
Looking for some help building your Apple TV tvOS App? I'm available for consulting and development, contact me. This is part 2 of the tvOS tutorial. If you haven't gone through part 1 yet, I suggest you run through that first. Adding Interactivity In the first section we created a simple TVML document with a few buttons. It looked something…
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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 Xcode 7.1 Beta Note that…
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 value). Additionally, println is now…
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…