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Posted on June 9, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “12 Points The Media Missed at the WWDC15 Keynote”
Posted on May 29, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit: Introducing Navigation to the Apple Watch(Part 4: Dismissals and Segues)”
Category: GUI, ios8, Swift Programming, Tutorial, Uncategorized, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, awakeWithContext, button, contextForsegueWithIdentifier, popController, popToRootController, popViewControllerAnimated, Programming Apple watch, pushControllerWithName, segue, Story Board, storyboard, swift, UIviewcontroller, view controllers, Watchkit, WKInterfaceController
Posted on May 19, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Swift Swift: How to Make a Drop Shadow in User Interfaces”
Category: GUI, ios8, Swift, Swift Swift, Tutorial, UncategorizedTags: Auto Layout, Autoalyout, CALayer, Drop Shadows, Drop Shaodws, Glow, ios, iOS 8, layer property, Shadow Radius, Shaodw Opacity, swift, Swift GUI, UIButton, UIbutton.layer
Posted on April 16, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Swift WatchKit Tutorials: Using Groups in WatchKit”
Category: GUI, Swift Programming, Tutorial, Uncategorized, WatchKitTags: Apple Watch, Buttons, glance, groups, layout, Notification, Programming Apple watch, Story Board, storyboard, swift, Watchkit
Posted on March 10, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Swift Swift: Basic Core Graphics for the Ring Graph”
Category: Core Graphics, ios8, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, Tutorial, UncategorizedTags: arc graphs, Core Graphics, diagrams, donut, graphs, ring arc, ring graphs, swift, User interface
Posted on March 2, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Converting Objective C to Swift : The Circular Picker View Example”
Category: GUI, ios8, Objective C, Swift Programming, Tutorial, UncategorizedTags: Circular, continuous, conversion, Objective C to Swift, objective-c, picker view, pickerview, swift, UIPickerView, wrap around, wrapping
Posted on January 22, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Swift Swift Tutorials: Calculator Style buttons in an Auto Layout Xib”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, GUI, ios8, Swift Swift, Tutorial, UncategorizedTags: Auto Layout, calculator buttons, modal delegates in swift, modal view in swift, swift, swift and IB, swift tutorial, Xcode, xib, xib in swift
Posted on December 11, 2014
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Swift Swift: Using UIScrollView with Autolayout”
Posted on December 11, 2014
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Kinderswift 9: Strings”
Posted on December 10, 2014
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Kinderswift 8: Making Your Own Functions”
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