Tag: class methods

• July 25, 2018

  UIColor Class Extensions

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I added  a column on converting hex colors to UIColor. That was a function you had to copy and paste into your code. I’ve also shown you how to use the assets to keep color names handy. What would be even better is to do all that directly from UIColor. […]
• August 7, 2015

  A Swift Tutorial for Working with Classes Part 3: Abstract classes.

  In the first tutorial in this series we introduced classes. In  the second we did some more advanced manipulations of classes. In both, we discussed the idea of inheritance, which has one final possibility: a class whose only purpose is to define other classes. This is known as  an abstract class. Abstract classes are mere […]
• July 28, 2015

  A Swift Guide to Working with Classes Part Two: Advanced Class Techniques

  In our first part we looked at some of the basics of classes in Swift. In this part, we look at some of the more advanced features of classes which developers use every day — often without knowing it. We’ll explore first a bit more on class methods, scope, keeping others from messing with your […]
• July 21, 2015

  A Swift Tutorial to Working with Classes Part 1:Basic Classes

  I find a lot of confusion among beginners and a handful of intermediate developers about what is a class. Object oriented languages like Swift, Objective C or C++ use classes to organize everything in the language and the API’s. You might have heard words like callback, override, setter and getter and have no idea what […]
• December 9, 2014

  KinderSwift 7: Introduction to Functions

  This session we will learn about functions by making colors with UIColor. Transcript Welcome to lesson 7 of KinderSwift. In our last lesson we used this to convert a Int into a Double and this to convert a Double into a Int. Both of these are functions. Functions take the data within the parentheses and […]