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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…
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 We chose to write this tutorial because newcomers will find many tutorials out there that are out of date, so it’s not…
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…
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….
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…
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)…
Function Currying in Swift The concept of currying is that instead of accepting multiple arguments, a function accepts only one, and returns a function which acepts the remaining arguments. The returned function will also accept only one argument, and returns another function. This process continues until all arguments are exhausted and we are left only…
This post compatible with Xcode 6.3 Beta, Updated on February 16, 2014 This is part three 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…
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…