Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Here's an app I started from the downloaded example file. It is a restaurant check with a total, but I have to press the Order button to see the details in a table view on the next view controller. That button is a waste of real estate, and it would be nice to see the …
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 …
You'll often want default settings that users can change. iOS provides the settings bundle for storing this information. Let's look at how to use the settings bundle. Download the starter example file. I created a project which eventually will display the user's default pizza. We'll finish the code to add that pizza. To add a …
