Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
The Apple pencil adds more functionality to tablets than finger touch, even though you use the same code. Let’s do a quick explore of the Apple Pencil, and see how easy it is to add support in your app. Download the starter app. It’s a Swift playground I’ll be using on my iPad so I …
Most map applications let you select a point on the map. However, touching a map usually is only for moving a map around. You might want to get a coordinate at a user’s tap. In this tip, I’ll show you how to get the coordinate, and place a marker there. Download the starter file and …
While doing some work on more material for the site in Swift playgrounds, I ran into a serious bug in the Swift Playgrounds for iPad. I made a short video to tell you're about it, and I've included an extended transcript afterwards. Hello Folks this is Steve from the iOS Development Tips Weekly series on …
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There’s lot of ways to represent colors. Crayons have names like Sea Green and Peach. I used these two colors since I'm color blind and they once got me in serious trouble when I was young. I and many with color blindness can't tell them apart easily. Knowing some other identifying system is critical in describing …
iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week's tip will be available for free. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image at left to view. You'll find an amended transcript below. You’ve …
iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week's tip will be available to the public. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image the left to view. You'll find a transcript below. One …
iOS Development tips weekly is a series you can find at the Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning libraries. The first week of a week's tip will be available to the public. After that, you will need a subscription to get access to it. Click the image the left to view. You'll find a transcript below. All …
A few months ago, Apple threw out my app Interval Runcalc for being too old. While it wasn't the most innovative, complex or profitable, it was an app I used frequently myself. It was a calculator for time, pace and distance for running not only for straight runs but for the run/walk/run community who use multiple-speed …
One of the biggest hazards of indie developers is getting full of themselves. You'll do things that you think are right or you found on StackOverflow from some other indie developer the looks like good code. Then someone comes along and tells you otherwise. The story so far: A few months ago, Apple removed my app …
A few months ago, Apple removed my app Interval RunCalc from the App Store for being too old and not updated. In this series of articles I'll document what I did on rebuilding and improving the app. In the last installment, I got the custom table view talking with the root view. This time I’m adding multiple cells to …
