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Quick blog links

You probably came here to resolve a specific problem – here are my most popular posts:

Flutter:

First impressions of Flutter: Part 1
First impressions of Flutter: Part 2

Android:

Converting Your iOS Application to Android: Part 1
Converting Your iOS Application to Android: Part 2
Converting Your iOS Application to Android: Part 3

Swift/Objective C:

Holy cow – You can preview UIKit code live in Xcode!
Making a simple toggle button with UIButton
Tiling a background image – sans code!
Presentation Style default in iOS 13
Property Wrappers and User Defaults
SF Symbols in iOS 13
Swift 5 – it’s alive!
Optionals in Swift explained – with a cat in a box!
Get a continent from longitude-latitude
Lightning tour of closures in Swift
Overloading functions with default parameter values
Lightning tour of functions in Swift
flatMap vs compactMap
iOS Video Course is live!
Xcode 10 keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
The Mysterious Case of the Status Bar
New Swift book available now, and free!
What’s new Swift 4.2?
Learn iOS Development with Swift now!
Migrating to Codable from NSCoding
Higher order functions in Swift
Sprite Kit Easing in Swift
Parameter defaults and Optional Function Parameters in Swift 3.0
Any vs AnyObject vs NSObject in Swift 3
Sorting strings in Swift
Parsing XML in Swift 3
Keyboards, text views and first responders

How to invite Facebook friends to install your iOS App

Create a dynamic framework for iOS in Swift

Swift API for the Flash Guy

Func parameters in Swift 3.0

Localization playing nicely with string interpolation in Swift

Multi-line SKLabels in Swift

Communication between objects in Objective C and Swift compared with ActionScript:
Part 1: Callbacks
Part 2: Actions
Part 3: Delegates
Part 4: Blocks/Closures
Part 5: Events

Easing equations in Swift

How to create a concave SKPhysicsBody

Optional parameters in methods in Objective C

Popups, Popovers, Pushing, Popping, Presenting, Alerts and Actionsheets!

Flash/Actionscript

Comparing Facebook/Social ANEs
7 common GOTCHAs for when you’re starting out with Flash Actionscript