Category: Swift Swift

• April 7, 2015

  Swift Swift: Making Colorful Table views

  Sometimes you’d like to make a colorful table.  Here’s a technique to do that when configuring a table view cell. It uses the HSB UIColor methods, so if you are not familiar with them, check out my post on HSB color here. Make a Project Make a new project in Xcode. In the template chooser, […]
• March 31, 2015

  Swift Swift: Split View Controllers (Round Two) Part 2: Master to Detail

  Back in July of 2014, I wrote one of this first posts on Split views, I said I would write another post on the subject. I ended up making this a section in chapter six of my Book I ended up making this section 2 of Chapter six of my Book Swift Swift: UI View […]
• March 14, 2015

  Happy Pi Day! — Add a Pie to the Ring Graph

  For those of us in the U.S. with a geekiness toward math March 15, 2015 at 9:26:53 is going to be the best pi day ever. As the date in the American calendar format is 3/14/15, the closest approximation to pi the mm dd yy hh:mm:ss format can have. To celebrate this, I’m going to […]
• March 12, 2015

  Swift Swift: Split View Controllers (Round Two) Part 1: The Master-Detail template

  Back in July of 2014, I wrote one of this first posts on Split views, I said I would write another post on the subject. I ended up making this a section in chapter six of my Book I ended up making this section 2 of chapter six of my Book Swift Swift: UI View […]
• March 10, 2015

  Swift Swift: Basic Core Graphics for the Ring Graph

  If you take a look at many of the cutting-edge designs for mobile User interfaces on Behance or Pinterest, you find a ring, arc or circle graph. The Apple Watch’s fitness activity app uses them extensively. Yet, if you scroll down the object library in Xcode it is a not a control to drag and […]
• February 17, 2015

  Create Dynamic and Static Table Views in Swift 3

  In an early post on this site, I wrote a table view tutorial. I decided to update that tutorial a bit for The Swift Swift View Controllers Book and add a bit more sophistication and depth. This tutorial deep dives in the subject. Both will remain on the site. In October 2016 I updated this for […]
• February 4, 2015

  Swift Swift Tutorials: Passing Data in Tab Bar Controllers

  [Updated for Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/21/15 SJL] While you can delegate between view controllers in tab bar controllers, it’s debatable if you want to. Tab bar controllers can break down MVC in cases. On one hand Apps with tab bar controllers have independent view controllers with completely separate functions, much like Apple’s clock app. Though the […]
• 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 […]
• December 19, 2014

  Auto Layout and Size Classes: The Regular Size and Lining up Buttons Evenly

  In the conclusion of our series on auto layout, we’ll discuss the regular size for iPads and one side of the iPhone 6 plus. We’ll make a line of evenly spaced buttons using auto layout, first for the iPad, then again for the iPhone 6 plus in landscape with its odd regular width, compact height […]