iOS Programming 101: How To Create Circular Profile Picture and Rounded Corner Image
One of the changes in iOS 7 is that it favors the use of circular image over square image. You can find circular icons or images in stock apps such as Contacts and Phone. In this short post, we’ll explore the CALayer class...
Background Transfer Service in iOS 7 SDK: How To Download File in Background
In a previous tutorial I presented a specific new multitasking feature in iOS 7, the Background Fetch, showing how easy it is to make an app to schedule downloads in the background. In this tutorial, I am going to work with...
Adding Animated Effects to iOS App Using UIKit Dynamics
In the recent tutorials, it has been underlined that iOS 7 has brought along great new features. Many new frameworks, libraries and APIs have been exposed to developers, letting them create modern and engaging applications and...
iOS Programming 101: Adding Section and Index List in UITableView
Recently, a reader asked me how to add an index list in a UITableView. As some of you may have the same question, I thought it’s better to write a post to share the solution. An indexed table view is more or less as the...
Working With Background Fetch in iOS 7
Among the millions of applications existing on the App Store, there is a great number of them that deals with data fetched from the web. Even more, today that carriers provide constant Internet access through 3G and 4G networks...
Working with Game Center and Game Kit Framework
On App Store, the most popular app category among all is the Games category, something that even Apple accepts as a fact. And how this couldn’t be true, regarding that all or almost all iOS users have downloaded and played...
Understanding Multipeer Connectivity Framework in iOS 7 – Part 2
Editor’s note: In part 1 of the multipeer connectivity series, we gave an introduction of the Multipeer Connectivity Framework and built chat feature of the demo app. The Multipeer Connectivity Framework is one of the many...
Understanding Multipeer Connectivity Framework in iOS 7 – Part 1
Editor’s note: This is part 1 of the Multipeer Connectivity series. The Multipeer Connectivity Framework is one of the many new frameworks iOS 7 introduces, and it broadens the range of the applications that can be built...
How To Implement Search Bar in iOS 7 Using Storyboard
Editor’s note: Like some of the programming tutorials, you may find the search bar tutorial no longer works in Xcode 5 and iOS 7. We’ve rewritten the tutorial to make it compatible with the latest version of Xcode. On...
Introduction to Objective-C Blocks
In programming, what differentiates a good developer from a great developer is the way each one takes advantage of the programming tools he or she offered by the used language. Objective-C, the official language for developing...