Category: iOS Development Weekly Tips

• May 9, 2018

  Tip: Deep Dive into Any? Dictionaries

  In many factory methods, you’ll find parameters with type Any? like this: userInfo parameters in iOS and context in watchOS use these. You can place anything there, but most often, you’ll use a dictionary of type [String:Any]. This is a great way of moving multiple values from one method to another without making a class…
• May 7, 2018

  Bug Workaround: Swift Playgrounds for iPad

  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…
• May 2, 2018

  Tip: Hex Colors

  

  There’s lot of ways to represent colors. Crayons have names like Sea Green and Peach. I used these two colors since I’m color blind and they once got me in serious trouble when I was young. I and many with color blindness can’t tell them apart easily. Knowing some other identifying system is critical in describing…
• April 18, 2018

  Tip: Image Literals

  

  iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week’s tip will be available for free. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image at left  to view.  You’ll find an amended transcript below. You’ve…
• March 21, 2018

  Weekly Tip: Make an iPad Camera

  

  iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week’s tip will be available to the public. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image the left  to view.  You’ll find a transcript below. One…
• February 27, 2018

  Quick JSON Decoding

  

  iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week’s tip will be available to the public. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image the left  to view.  Usually you’ll find a transcript below.…
• February 20, 2018

  Use Markers Instead of Pins for Map Annotations

  

  iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week’s tip will be available to the public. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image the left  to view. For as long as there has…
• February 13, 2018

  The Safe Area: Layout and iPhone X

  

  iOS Development Tips Weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries.  You can find the start project here on GitHub iOS Developer’s Weekly: Layout and iPhone X With the introduction of the iPhone X, you get that full screen, but the notch gets in the way. To get around…