Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
One dilemma you'll find when working with colors is switching between color systems. There's two you'll most often be using: the Red-Green-Blue or RGB and Hue-Saturation-Brightness or HSB. Download the Exercise file and run. It will give you the HSB value, but what if you want a RGB Value for that color? What if you …
For reading ease and visual accessibility you should be using dynamic fonts whenever possible. Let's look at an example you can get from the download files. I've run the Split View Controller from a previous tip in landscape on an iPad Pro 9.7 inch. Take a look at the labels on the table. They are …
Sometimes table views could use a few buttons. There's two delegates which create swipe buttons on table view cells. Let's learn how you can implement these buttons and an interesting hidden feature you can do with them. There is two delegate methods, one for the leading swipe configuration and one for the trailing Swipe configuration. …
You've probably used the Segmented control before like this one It's great for some simple uses but lacks flexibility. Besides using only text or single color icon, it doesn't work in vertical or other arrangements. Let's look at another solution: Using Button arrays. In the exercise files, I've set up for you a vertical stack …
Continue reading "Replace Segmented Controls with Button Arrays"
Learn how to use haptics to give phone vibrations and physical sensation to your iPhone apps.
Learn how to take a disaster of nested stack views and untangle it into a great user interface.
You've seen other apps rotate views, but you may have no idea how to do it yourself. Let me show you one way to rotate views. We'll make a simple knob control you might be able to use in your apps. Download the example file. On the storyboard, I added an UIImageView of a knob …
In the last tip, I showed you how to use UIPickerControllers to make a time interval input. What I didn't show you is how to output that. In this tip I'll show you how to read and convert data from a picker that has a separate delegate. If you download the exercise file, you'll have …
Continue reading "Time Picker Part 2: Strings to Time Intervals"
While there is the date components picker, sometimes you want a picker the gives a time interval in seconds. In this two-part tutorial, Let me show you how to set up one, and discuss some good uses of protocols beyondself If you download the exercise files, you’ll see I set up a project with two …
UI doesn't have to look like a rectangle. You might want a different shape for your icon. You can do that with layer masks. Let's learn how to set them up. Download the example files. You'll find an app with two square buttons. If you head over to the assets, you see I have a …
