Developing iBeacons Apps with Swift
Since the introduction of iBeacons with iOS 7 by Apple, a lot of things have been said and written about. iBeacon technology consist of a revolutionary way to keep track of the position of a device indoors and use location...
Building Action Extensions in iOS 8
Action extensions allow users to transform content originating in a host app without leaving the app. You can, for example edit images, change the text format, change the text itself, e.t.c. At WWDC 2014, Apple showed us a demo...
Announcing Intermediate iOS 8 Programming with Swift
At the time of this writing, the Swift programming language and iOS 8 have been around for more than 6 months. The new programming language has gained a lot of traction and continues to evolve. It is definitely the future...
App Showcase #2: Runr by Sam Spencer
Here comes to the second app showcase. Previously, we showed you an app created by a 17 year old developer. Since we published that story, we received emails from several young developers who also wanted to share their...
Xcode 6 Tips: Vector Images, Code Snippets and Many More
As a developer, no matter whether your are a professional one, or you are just doing programming for fun, it’s definite that you are going to spend endless hours in front of your monitor until your project is ready. Feeling...
Creating a Sidebar Menu Using SWRevealViewController in Swift
As promised, here is the Swift version of the slide out sidebar menu tutorial. Again we will make use of an open source library called SWRevealViewController to build the sidebar menu. Though the library was written in...
Building a Text to Speech App Using AVSpeechSynthesizer
iOS is an operating system with many possibilities, allowing to create from really simple to super-advanced applications. There are times where applications have to be multi-featured, providing elegant solutions that exceed the...
Creating Simple View Animations in Swift
Following the release of iOS 7 (and iOS 8 as well), animation and motion effects became central to the design of apps from both Apple and 3rd party developers. iOS 7 introduced a flat, minimal design to apps which inevitably...
Documenting Your Objective-C and Swift Code in Xcode with HeaderDoc and Doxygen
During the development of an application there are various steps involved in the whole process. Some of them are the definition of its specifications, the creation of graphics, the implementation, and the testing phase following...
WatchKit Introduction: Building a Simple Guess Game
Editor’s note: Apple Watch is expected to release in the coming months. But as you know, the company already released WatchKit, the SDK that allows developers to create apps for its upcoming Apple Watch, along with Xcode...