Category: ios8

• January 27, 2015

  Tab Bar Controllers in Storyboards

  [Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/21/15 SJL] While Navigation controllers often have the limelight when it comes to Xcode controllers, Tab Bar controllers are great for independent tasks in the same app or for different ways of working with the same model. In this lesson, we’ll take a look at tab bar controllers and how to […]
• January 22, 2015

  Swift Swift Tutorials: Calculator Style buttons in an Auto Layout Xib

  Some people want calculator-type buttons. It would be nice to have such buttons for say, an order entry app. In this lesson we’ll put together a set of buttons to make a layout for an order entry system. Along the way I’ll show how to use a Xib as a modal view in Swift. This […]
• January 8, 2015

  Basic Auto Layout: A Practical View for Beginners

  Note: When I originally posted the Basic Auto Layout video on YouTube, I recorded it live and did not make a script I could post underneath it. This post makes the same UI as the video, but with a few differences in depth of material and process to illustrate how to handle autolayout errors and […]
• December 11, 2014

  Swift Swift: Using UIScrollView with Autolayout

  Last week we talked about cameras, one thing I’d like in my camera app is the ability to take a picture then zoom and scroll around the photo. For that, we need to use the UIScrollview. UIScrollView is a very flexible and important control in UIKit. It is the basis for many the controls we […]
• December 11, 2014

  Kinderswift 9: Strings

  Transcript Hello, welcome to Kinderswift Lesson 9. I’m Steve from makeapppie.com So far we’ve worked with numbers and colors, but what if you wanted to work with text? The basic text type in Swift is String. Like a literal Double of 3.5, we can have a literal String. Enclose String literals in quotes like this […]
• December 10, 2014

  Kinderswift 8: Making Your Own Functions

  Transcript In our last lesson we learned about functions. Swift, and most modern programming languages are nothing more than writing groups of your own functions. In this lesson, we will write our own functions. In our last lesson you may remember this function Which made varying colors of gray. Let’s start by making our own […]
• December 9, 2014

  KinderSwift 7: Introduction to Functions

  This session we will learn about functions by making colors with UIColor. Transcript Welcome to lesson 7 of KinderSwift. In our last lesson we used this to convert a Int into a Double and this to convert a Double into a Int. Both of these are functions. Functions take the data within the parentheses and […]
• December 8, 2014

  KinderSwift 6: Types and Casting

  In this lesson we cover how to explicitly type an identifier and how to use casting to force its type. Transcript Welcome back to kinderswift. episode 6. In our last lesson, we left off with this not working: Swift does not let you mix types. This lesson we will learn a little more about types […]
• December 4, 2014

  Swift Swift: Using the UIImagePickerController for a Camera and Photo Library.

  [Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 09/29/2015 SJL] Almost every iPhone and iPad now has a camera. Many people want to use a camera in their apps for various reasons. While you may not be building the next Instagram or Twitter, there are many places where photo documentation comes in handy. There are two ways to use […]
• November 25, 2014

  Proportional Sizes in Autolayout

  Transcript Welcome to this quick lesson on auto layout and proportional spacing of elements. In the previous videos, we used equal widths to set the spacing for  various elements in auto layout. But what if you want the sizes to be different? For example, what if in the app we are working with the buttons […]