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iOS Video Course is live!

After many months of work, my video course iOS Development with Swift in Motion has recently launched over at Manning Publications. If you’re interested in taking on iOS Development, but aren’t sure if you’re ready to take the plunge, I’d

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Learn iOS and Swift – interactive video course

Exciting news! For most of this year I’ve been busy working on a series of video tutorials in iOS and Swift, and this week we’re launching the Manning Early Access Program(MEAP) for the course. There will be 13 units in

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Two FLVPlayers battle eachother with full-screen

When an FLVPlayer component contains a fullscreen button, whenever the application goes to full-screen, the component automatically shows the FLVPlayer component, even if you have set up an alternative full-screen button elsewhere. The way to prevent the component from hijacking

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Video white

A recent task I had to achieve was to play a video for several seconds and extract a frame as a JPG several seconds in. I did not know the dimensions of the video ahead of time, so hoped to

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