Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
You've probably used the Segmented control before like this one It's great for some simple uses but lacks flexibility. Besides using only text or single color icon, it doesn't work in vertical or other arrangements. Let's look at another solution: Using Button arrays. In the exercise files, I've set up for you a vertical stack …
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A video of this tip can be found on LinkedIn Learning User Interfaces often use shadows to make them look less flat, but it isn't obvious how to add one to a view on your app. In this tip, I’ll show you how to make shadows using the CALayer found in UIViews, and a few …
In the good old days, Apple used a lot of rounded corner buttons. Many developers use several images to get the effect of round buttons. The CALayer of UIButton does have a feature for you to easily get rounded corners, and even circular buttons. Download the code from GitHub and open the starter file. It …
A tech author's work is never done. As soon as he or she completes manuscript and gets it published, the manuscript almost immediately becomes obsolete. In my case, Practical Autolayout for Xcode 8 went obsolete a day before I published, but I had no idea about a major change in Xcode 8.1. Until Xcode 8.1, if you …
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. …
Goodbye Emoticons! Up to this point in our lessons for programming Apple Watch we've used emoticons for graphics. It's time to introduce true images to our WatchKit apps. There are two ways to use graphics. We'll discuss adding images to Buttons, Groups, and Interface controller and the slider's min and max icons. We'll also use …
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Like a lot of people I ordered my Apple watch on April 10th, and now have to wait until June for it to arrive. I'm excited about the possibilities of the watch. I'm excited about writing applications for the watch, and I'm excited about sharing that information with you. Introducing WatchKit through MVC Understanding how to …
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