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• June 9, 2015

  12 Points The Media Missed at the WWDC15 Keynote

  Yesterday, I wrote some of the trends to watch during WWDC 2015, most likely in the keynote. I started with the press getting what happened completely wrong and ended with the Large class size meaning an Apple mega tablet was on the  way, or as a long shot Apple TV will be an ios9 device. […]
• May 29, 2015

  Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 4: Dismissals and Segues)

  In our lessons setting up navigation controllers on the Apple Watch, we’ve learned how to set up the storyboard,  how to use push controllers programmatically and introduced sending data to another controller and back using contexts and delegates.  In this lesson, we’ll pass data when you have a segue and learn how to dismiss controllers. […]
• May 19, 2015

  Swift Swift: How to Make a Drop Shadow in User Interfaces

  Flat User interfaces are a lie. They are not completely flat. One effect continues to be used with them to show depth: Shadows. In flat interfaces it can look like there are some views floating above others by the use of shadows. In this lesson we’ll learn to make shadows using the CALayer found in […]
• April 16, 2015

  Swift WatchKit Tutorials: Using Groups in WatchKit

  WatchKit is not UIKit.  How you program for Apple watch differs greatly from how you program a iPhone or iPad. There are controls that look familiar, but act very differently.  In this lesson you’ll learn about  groups, a layout mechanism which is, but should not be, compared to subviews. We’ll also introduce glances and notifications, […]
• 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 […]
• March 2, 2015

  Converting Objective C to Swift : The Circular Picker View Example

  Swift is a new language. Objective C is not. Sometimes you have some Objective C code and want to make it into Swift code. I had a case of that this week when a reader asked me about continuous picker view wheels. If you are familiar with the date picker it goes from 0 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 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 […]