Tag: Swift Programming Language

• May 3, 2015

  Swift Swift: Making Background Images, Small Images and Custom UIViews with Autolayout

  For those who have worked a bit with auto layout, there are two topics that seems to be a real challenge: using a custom UIView, especially when using Core Graphics , and displaying photos  either in the foreground or as a background. Both suffer from similar problems. When changing device or changing orientations they are…
• 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 10, 2014

  From Brackets to Braces in Swift: Constants and Comments

  

  In this series of posts, I’m going to explain much of Apple’s new Swift programming language. It assumes you have no earlier programming knowledge or need to brush up on a few concepts to get things working. Since the Publication of the Book The C Programming Language by Kernigan and Ritchie many decades ago, everyone…