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Segue Actions
If you’ve been working with View controllers for a while, you’ve probably dealt with prepareForSegue. In Xcode 11, there’s a new way to handle this that makes a little more sense: Segue actions. Let’s take a look at this feature. If you download the… Continue Reading “Segue Actions”
Protocols and Time Pickers
While there is the date components picker, sometimes you want a picker the gives a time interval in seconds. In this two-part tutorial, Let me show you how to set up one, and discuss some good uses of protocols beyondself If you download the… Continue Reading “Protocols and Time Pickers”
Why do we need Delegates in iOS and WatchOS?
About two years ago someone asked me a very good question: Why do we need delegates for UIViewControllers? He thought Swift made things easier, but this delegate stuff seems very complicated. Shouldn’t we be able to send a message or initializer between classes? When… Continue Reading “Why do we need Delegates in iOS and WatchOS?”
Using Segues and Delegates for Navigation Controllers in Swift 4.0
[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… Continue Reading “Using Segues and Delegates for Navigation Controllers in Swift 4.0”
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.… Continue Reading “A Swift Tutorial for Working with Classes Part 3: Abstract classes.”
Swift Swift: Using Xibs and Delegates with Modal Views
In the last post, I showed how to create modal views and popovers on an iPad . That lesson was missing two critical things for modal views, which we will cover in this one. We will learn how to add a .xib file to… Continue Reading “Swift Swift: Using Xibs and Delegates with Modal Views”
The Swift Swift Tutorial: Why Do We Need Delegates?
[Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 SJL 9/28/15] A Note to readers: This post is out of date. Since Swift 3.0, iOS 10 and watchOS 3 have so many changes, I made a new post wth proper syntax, and a lot better illustrations. You can find… Continue Reading “The Swift Swift Tutorial: Why Do We Need Delegates?”
The Swift Swift Tutorial: How to Use UITableView in Swift
[Converted to to Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/28/15 SJL] The workhorse control in iOS is the table view. With both a delegate and data source it is powerful, flexible and can get a bit complicated. In this lesson, we will add a table view controller between… Continue Reading “The Swift Swift Tutorial: How to Use UITableView in Swift”
The Swift Swift Tutorial: Using Delegates and Segues in Swift Part 2 — The Pizza Demo App
In our last post, we went through a very basic framework for segues and delegates in Swift. This time, we will add the segues and delegates to the pizza demo application so we can change the prices in the dictionary for the pizzas. Swift… Continue Reading “The Swift Swift Tutorial: Using Delegates and Segues in Swift Part 2 — The Pizza Demo App”
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