Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
There’s lot of ways to represent colors. Crayons have names like Sea Green and Peach. I used these two colors since I'm color blind and they once got me in serious trouble when I was young. I and many with color blindness can't tell them apart easily. Knowing some other identifying system is critical in describing …
iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week's tip will be available for free. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image at left to view. You'll find an amended transcript below. You’ve …
iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week's tip will be available to the public. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image the left to view. You'll find a transcript below. One …
iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week's tip will be available to the public. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image the left to view. You'll find a transcript below. Not …
A few months ago, Apple threw out my app Interval Runcalc for being too old. While it wasn't the most innovative, complex or profitable, it was an app I used frequently myself. It was a calculator for time, pace and distance for running not only for straight runs but for the run/walk/run community who use multiple-speed …
Table views on any mobile platform are the workhorse of any application. To be a good developer you need to make table views easily. Tables in iOS use the UITableView class to do so. This is a very powerful class with many features to make the tables you see in applications like Facebook, Instagram and …
While Navigation controllers often have the limelight when it comes to Xcode's view controllers, tab bar controllers are better 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 how to make them in Swift programmatically. If you are interested …
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For most uses, a basic string works well. Normal strings have no character or paragraph formatting. They rely on the properties of the control to format them. The system only formats the full string, not parts of it. For formatting a part of a string, you need an attributed string which specifies parts of the …
[Updated 2/13/2018 to Xcode 9 / Swift 4.0] It should be one of the easiest things we do, and yet for many it is the most confusing. Getting data from one view controller to another as you switch views never seems easy. Segues might be slightly difficult, but delegates to get the information back have …
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Often code needs some way to describe a discrete set of cases. You might need values for breakfast lunch and dinner for example. How we configure a view might be set by one of a few choices. There are many types of UIButtons we can use such as system, custom, and detail disclosure. We would …
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