Parse Swift with Cocoapods
Xcode new project Terminal CD to project directory Open your Podfile with: open -a Xcode Podfile Uncomment Frameworks, and add Parse, and ParseUI to do. Should look something like this: # Uncomment...
View ArticleSwift – Camera and UIImagePickerController
Take pictures with the UIImagePickerController. This is a ViewController subclass, that creates a view that allows you to take a picture with the camera. The UIImagePickerController works with a...
View ArticleSwift – Simple Animations
Need to create simple animation? Use UIView.animateWithDuration() or one of the other similar methods. While this is fairly easy to use, it is bit cumbersome. Why not make a helper method to simplify...
View ArticleSwift – NSNumberFormatter
At some point you will find yourself in need of formatting numbers. This could be for time, temperature, currency, or just wanting to control the number of decimal places. You might even want to...
View ArticleSwift – Singletons
Singleton and the TodoManager The goal of the current project is to create a Todo App. This app will work with Todo items that need to be shared across more than one view controller. One approach is to...
View ArticleSwift – UITableViewRowActions and editActionsForRowAtIndexPath
Do you like those button that display when you swipe a row in a table view to the left? You can add your own with little effort using UITableViewRowAction, and tableView(:editActionsForRowAtIndexPath)....
View ArticleSwift – UIView
Here are some notes on working with UIView. I try to cover the differences between frame and bounds, and how to position elements on the screen using frame, bounds, and center. There is a video example...
View ArticleThe Language of Segues
Segues in iOS are used to get from one piece of content to another. There are couple simple transitions that are default, and you can also make your own custom transitions. The default transitions,...
View ArticleSwift – Optionals
There is not way I can explain optionals better than this. Read it twice. Three times or more. It takes a while for it to sink in.
View ArticleSwift – AVAudioFoundation
Playing sounds with Swift and AVAudioFoundation A few notes about using AVAudioFoundation with Swift. Be sure to add your audio files to your project. Make sure they have been “added to target”....
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