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...
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...
Building a Chat App in Swift Using Multipeer Connectivity Framework
When programming in iOS, there are certain aspects of the SDK that pull the developers’ attention and interest a lot more than others, and one of them is the Multipeer Connectivity framework. As you know, the MPC framework...
A Look at the WebKit Framework in iOS 8 – Part 2
In the first part of the WebKit tutorial, we covered the basics of the WebKit framework. In this tutorial, we’ll dive deeper into WebKit and look at how we can customize web pages loaded by our native app. We’ll also...
A Look at the WebKit Framework – Part 1
If you’ve ever built an application that required a webview to load web content in your native app, then you have probably experienced the frustrations that came with using UIWebView. UIWebView is quite limited and its...
App Showcase #1: AffordIt Budget Tracker by Andrew Walker
Last year, we published a series of developer stories to share the learning experience of some first-time app developers. We got great feedback about the stories and their experience inspired others to learn iOS programming....