Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
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 exercise files, you’ll see I set up a project with two …
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 I first learned iOS, I'll admit it took me months to …
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[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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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 …
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[Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9.0 9/20/2015 SJL] 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 tab bar controllers and after …
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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 a view controller. Then we will add a delegate to return …
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[Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 SJL 9/28/15] A Note to readers: This post is out of date.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 that here on my site or here on LinkedIn Pulse …
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[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 the Pizza Demo and the Edit Price scenes in our earlier …
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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 and Xcode is still in beta, and there are quirks I'll …
[Updating to Swift 2.0 SJL 9/17/15] Click here for the Swift 3.0 version of this post 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, …
