Category: Announcements

• September 15, 2015

  How MakeAppPie.com is Updating to Swift 2.0

  With the release of the GM Seed last week, I am now in process of converting posts to be Swift 2.0 compatible. I make it policy not to update during beta versions, since it is likely I’ll need to change all my posts every beta version. I have a lot of work ahead of me…
• June 25, 2015

  Practical Auto Layout: Are You Ready for iOS 9?

  Apple messed up big time. They wanted a simple, powerful but flexible system to lay out buttons, labels, images and other objects on the storyboard. They wanted a way to make only one layout and have it work on any iOS device in any orientation. They created Auto Layout and Size classes. Then they messed…
• June 10, 2015

  The Beta Blues with the Apple Watch

  In case you did not hear about the WWDC15 keynote, Apple announced that  WatchKit is now part of WatchOS2, implemented in the Xcode 7 beta. WatchOS2 has several major differences to WatchKit, most importantly native execution of apps on the watch. For the watchkit lessons I’ve been posting, I’m assuming watchkit 1, and will not…
• April 9, 2015

  Swift Swift: View Controllers Now Available for iBooks

  It was hard to tell if the cheers of joy or cries of fear were louder when Swift was announced, the next generation programming language to provide rapid development and more error free code than its predecessor Objective-C. There is nothing to fear. Grabbing the best from many different languages Swift makes for a completely…
• February 25, 2015

  The Joys of Beta Swift: as Versus as! and Why I Avoid Betas

  It came to my attention this week there’s a big change to Swift code on the way. It doesn’t look big though: it is the difference between as and as!. The keyword as is the conversion operator. Usually type or class are easily defined like this: But there are times you get things like this…
• September 12, 2014

  The Joys of Beta Swift: More with Optionals and the “does not have a member named” error

  We’ve had another change to the Swift compiler that was brought to my attention by an astute reader. I was aware of it, and you’ll notice I even used it in the last few posts, but I really should have warned people about it, and got it fixed. Back in my post on Adding an…
• July 31, 2014

  The Joys of Beta Swift: A Change to Outlets

  I went to open the pizza demo to get ready for my next post and was greeted by 10 compiler error messages, all the same. ‘IBOutlet’ property has non-optional type ‘UILabel’ Just after I finished the optionals post, It turns out there a change in Beta 4. Before Beta 4, and as described in Apple’s…
• April 24, 2014

  SlipppyFlippyPenguin1.1 Now in the App Store.

  

  SlippyFlippy has gone through an update and is now better. Besides fixing The Hard Mode Bug as described in The Bug Hunt, Slippy has new features for keeping score of  Hard and Easy Modes separately, and a countdown timer so you are ready to start the game. If you haven’t tried it yet, try this…