Writing
The public notebook: Swift, iOS, Flutter, and a long trail of “I will definitely remember this.”
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Func parameters in Swift 2.0
This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. This week func parameters were simplified in Swift 2.0. The hash symbol was deprecated for specifying a parameter should be explicitly named, and…
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AS3 in Swift? Whaa?
This week I thought it could be an interesting exercise to write the AS3 SDK from within Swift, using SpriteKit. So I did! Remember DisplayObjects? MovieClips? EventDispatchers? gotoAndPlay? They’re back! Some might…
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Multi line SKLabels in Swift
Updated for Swift 3! Sometimes Apple seems to have made some pretty obvious oversights – a SKLabel without multi-line capability? Strange. I’ve had a look at some third party solutions and each…
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SKTexture gradient
SpriteKit at times can seem a little rudimentary – small tasks can seem to take longer than they should! Today I ran into a limitation of SKShapeNodes – there doesn’t seem to…
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Localization playing nicely with string interpolation in Swift
I can’t work out why Apple’s documentation of Swift core data types is still so poor, but luckily we have Swiftdoc. To illustrate, according to Apple docs there are two init methods…
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Looking back on 2014
2014 has been a great year, where I have made the transition from Flash to native iOS development and set up Interactive Coconut. Finished the year heavily involved in writing the Swift…
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7 common GOTCHAs for when you’re starting out with Flash Actionscript
I was thinking the other day about the process of learning Swift and how a list of common gotchas would have been handy when starting out. Since I have about 15 years…
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Swift – a history of the inspiration for ‘new’ concepts!
In studying Swift initially, I was quite interested to read about concepts that I wasn’t familiar with, and curious to know if these were brand new concepts invented by excited Apple engineers,…
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Parameter defaults and Optional function parameters in Swift
This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. This post has been updated for Swift 3.0 here. Swift has an interesting multi-pronged approach to dealing with default and optional function parameters, based in…
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Popups, Popovers, Pushing, Popping, Presenting, Alerts and Actionsheets!
All the options for popups and displaying View Controllers can get a little confusing at times. I’ve put together a project that summarises the various options. The app contains four tabs: Alerts/Actionsheets…