As iOS 11 no longer supports 32 bit apps, I’ve been revisiting an old app that was built in Flash/ActionScript3 (and packed in 32 bit) and decided it was an opportune moment to migrate it to native iOS Xcode/Swift. Migration…
For those who came in late: Apple introduced the `Codable` protocol in Swift 4, which allows you to encode and decode your model types to data types such as JSON and property lists, and can be used instead of the…
Ah, it’s migration season again, that time when all the Swifts fly to the fertile breeding grounds of version 4. đ In the past, migrating your code was a big deal when a new version of Swift was introduced –…
Well, it was a year ago that I updated my app Grabble Words to use Parse Server (for storing data in the cloud) via herokuapp (for running applications in the cloud) and mongodb (database hosting service). Here‘s where I delved into some difficulties with…
More than just map, filter, reduce and sort…
Are you thinking about getting into iOS in Swift, and are looking for an all-in-one guide? I have just the book for you. iOS Development with Swift brings you into the world of developing iOS apps, using Apple’s Swift programming language.…
More devices, split view controllers (introduced in iOS 8), slide over and split view multitasking modes (introduced in iOS 9) have all made adjusting a layout to its environment more and more complex. Interested to know about Size classes in Interface…
It really is surprising that SpriteKit, Apple’s framework for building 2D games doesn’t have better easing algorithms available. I’ve just updated my solution, SpriteKitEasingSwift, to Swift 3, and added Carthage support. Here it is at github and CocoaPods. Kudos to buddingmonkey who built the Objective-C…
Sometimes it can be a pain moving around code in Xcode especially with long method and property names. Then I discovered an Xcode keyboard shortcut that rocks – move back and forward through camel case sub-words! Use Controlâ and Controlâ to skip through camel case. Hold…
With Swift 3 coming out of beta, some are still asking the question ‘Why Swift?’ Maybe you’re already an Objective-C developer – why learn a new language when the old one works fine? Or maybe you’re learning iOS development and…
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