Tag: ios8

• March 21, 2016

  Tables and Scroll Views in WatchOS2

  

  One of the most powerful and important controls on both wearable and mobile devices are table views. Table views come in two flavors: static and dynamic. Dynamic table views read data from a collection type and displays it. Static tables allow for a vertical scroll view with a set of controls. Static table views are…
• January 8, 2015

  Basic Auto Layout: A Practical View for Beginners

  Note: When I originally posted the Basic Auto Layout video on YouTube, I recorded it live and did not make a script I could post underneath it. This post makes the same UI as the video, but with a few differences in depth of material and process to illustrate how to handle autolayout errors and…
• November 14, 2014

  Swift Swift: Using Auto Layout with Size Classes

  Last week we looked at the basics of auto layout, this week, we learn Diagonal Control Drag Using the layout error  panel for misplaced layouts Introduce Size Classes Make a different layout for iPhone in portrait with Size Classes Transcript Hello, I’m Steve from MakeAppPie.com. In this video we are going to learn some more…
• November 7, 2014

  Swift Swift: Basic Auto Layout for iOS8

  This is one of several videos I’m making about Auto Layout and Size classes. In this first video, I’ll put together a user interface and with Auto Layout. I’ll also show how to use the preview mode so you can see the UI on any iOS device without running the simulator. For an in-depth look…
• June 12, 2014

  The Swift Swift Tutorial:A Swift Pizza App with UI

  [Updated to Swift 2.0 8/30/15] I thought I’d do some writing for the advanced beginner to intermediate level programmer. That’s a loose definition, but I’ll define it as someone who can find their way around Xcode well enough that I can say “open a single view template and add two buttons and a label” and…
• June 9, 2014

  From Brackets to Braces: A Swift Tutorial for Newbies

  The Media was waiting for Apple to have some jaw dropping bomb of an announcement at WWDC2014, expecting some miraculous hardware like a watch or teleportation device for the iPhone. What they got in classic Apple form was totally unexpected — a new programming language, Swift. At the keynote, application developers cheered many of the…
• June 3, 2014

  WWDC Is Not CES

  A few weeks ago, I was talking to friend  about the Stopwatch I had written in Sprite Kit. At the time I had the stopwatch working to tenths of a second.  While I was discussing this stopwatch on social media, a friend of mine bragged that their stopwatch app they downloaded somewhere goes to hundredths…