Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
A video of this tip can be found on LinkedIn Learning User Interfaces often use shadows to make them look less flat, but it isn't obvious how to add one to a view on your app. In this tip, I’ll show you how to make shadows using the CALayer found in UIViews, and a few …
Note:You can find a video of this tip here on LinkedIn Learning If there's one thing in auto layout that drives me nuts it is laying out for landscape different than portrait on an iPad. Phones are easy since the class sizes are different for portrait and landscape. For all phones, if I have a …
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In the good old days, Apple used a lot of rounded corner buttons. Many developers use several images to get the effect of round buttons. The CALayer of UIButton does have a feature for you to easily get rounded corners, and even circular buttons. Download the code from GitHub and open the starter file. It …
It's sometimes nice to add a little sound to your applications, and even better to add a voice. Outside Siri, you can use a cool and simple AVFoundation API to make iOS devices talk. Let's learn how to use the Speech synthesizer. Download the starter file. I've made an app for you that has a …
One of the more perplexing parts of using tab bar controllers is customizing tabs. If you understand some of the properties of an image, You can do some major customization. Download the example file. If you open the main storyboard you'll see three view controllers. You may see Question marks in the image like this: …
Note: You can also watch a video of this lesson at Lynda. com and LinkedInLearning. There's been a few changes to the storyboard in Xcode 10, some might just drive you crazy if you don't know how to use them. Some are really cool and will speed up your workflow. Let me show you the …
A couple of weeks ago, I added a column on converting hex colors to UIColor. That was a function you had to copy and paste into your code. I’ve also shown you how to use the assets to keep color names handy. What would be even better is to do all that directly from UIColor. …
The Apple pencil adds more functionality to tablets than finger touch, even though you use the same code. Let’s do a quick explore of the Apple Pencil, and see how easy it is to add support in your app. Download the starter app. It’s a Swift playground I’ll be using on my iPad so I …
Most map applications let you select a point on the map. However, touching a map usually is only for moving a map around. You might want to get a coordinate at a user’s tap. In this tip, I’ll show you how to get the coordinate, and place a marker there. Download the starter file and …
While doing some work on more material for the site in Swift playgrounds, I ran into a serious bug in the Swift Playgrounds for iPad. I made a short video to tell you're about it, and I've included an extended transcript afterwards. Hello Folks this is Steve from the iOS Development Tips Weekly series on …
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