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February 6, 2019

Time Picker Part 2: Strings to Time Intervals

In the last tip, I showed you how to use UIPickerControllers to make a time interval input. What I didn't show you is how to output that. In this tip I'll show you how to read and convert data from a picker that has a separate delegate. If you download the exercise file, you'll have …

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August 1, 2018

Date and Time in iOS

The song says time is on my side, but I sometimes I wonder about that when trying to work with the time types in iOS. Let me show you some of the time types. In Xcode, Open up a blank playground. There are two primary types for working with time: TimeInterval and Date. Add this …

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December 19, 2016December 20, 2016

Parsing Strings from Time and Fractions to Doubles

This week's lesson covers a topic the I left off on last week's lesson, but can be used outside that context. I thus wanted to cover it separately. Last week I showed you how to use a UIPickerView to input numbers with a lot less validation. We looked at doubles, fractions and time intervals. …

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