How To Create an Expandable Table View in iOS
A common feature of almost all apps is the fact that they provide multiple view controllers to users to navigate and work with. Those view controllers can be used in many ways, such as to simply display some kind of information...
3D Touch Introduction: Building a Digital Scale App and Quick Actions
With the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, Apple introduced us an entirely new way to interact with our phones: a hard-press gesture. As you may know, this feature was already available on the Apple Watch and MacBook under the name Force...
Building a ToDo App Using Realm and Swift
After the big evolution in smart phones in the last years, a lot of tools have been developed to make life easier and simpler for developers to deliver the best performance and quality. To rock in the app store today is not an...
A Beginner’s Guide to NSDate in Swift
If I was ever asked what’s one of the most common stuff I do among all projects, then I would have answered that dealing with dates is definitely one of them. Undoubtably, there’s no developer out there who...
A First Look at Contacts Framework in iOS 9
As every iOS release, the version 9, which is officially here for just a few weeks, presents new features and improvements to existing technologies for both users and developers. As we’ve all witnessed, there’s a...
Beginner’s Guide: Using Social Framework and UIActivityViewController
So, you are just about to get finished with the new super-app of yours, or the one that your boss or a customer have asked you to make, and you realize that there’s one more important requirement, to make it capable of...
How To Create a Custom Search Bar Using UISearchController
Quite often it’s required from iOS applications to be capable of performing search in specific data that is displayed in a tableview. Undoubtably, most of developers have faced that situation, and the most usual approach to...
How to Integrate Google Sign In into Your iOS Apps
In my last tutorial we worked with the YouTube API, and through the demo application we managed to make requests to that specific Google API. Actually, we created an API key prior to any request, as that key was vital for every...
Creating a Slide Down Menu Using View Controller Transition
Navigation is an important part of every user interface. There are multiple ways to present a menu for your users to access the app’s features. The sidebar menu that we discussed in the earlier tutorial is an example. Slide...
Building a Video Search App with YouTube API
It’s a well-known fact that Google provides a big number of electronic products and services that can be used from the simplest end-user, to the most sophisticated one. But further than those who just use the Google...