Combine vs RxSwift: Introduction to Combine & differences
Combine vs RxSwift: in this article we introduce Combine, the new Apple framework, and spot its main differences with RxSwift.
iOS
A Beginner’s Guide to Access Levels in Swift
Welcome to another programming tutorial in the Swift programming language! Today we we are going to talk about a topic that usually everybody knows something more or less, but it’s important for new developers in Swift to really understand what is all about and how it works. It’s quite often for the subject of our discussion not to receive the proper attention, so it’s either misused or not used at all. It’s a topic that the more someone advances in Swift, the more necessary it becomes in order to write better and clearer code. And that topic is about Access […]
Creating a search bar for SwiftUI
SwiftUI does not offer a SearchBar View out of the box yet. But we can fall back to using UISearchBar of UIKit.
Executing AppleScript in a Mac app on macOS Mojave and dealing with AppleEvent sandboxing
Over a weekend recently I built a tiny Mac app (more on that later). What I was trying to achieve required executing AppleScript, like so many things on macOS. It seemed simple enough, but of course new app sandboxing restrictions...
SwiftUI Tutorial: Navigation
In this tutorial, you’ll use SwiftUI to implement the navigation of a master-detail app. You’ll learn how to implement a navigation stack, a navigation bar button, a context menu and a modal sheet.
Memory Management in Swift: Understanding Strong, Weak and Unowned References
Memory Management in Swift: Understanding Strong, Weak and Unowned References
San Francisco display vs text and compact vs normal
San Francisco display vs text / compact vs normal. Learn the main differences in the new apple fonts.
React Native Architecture : Explained!
React Native is a modern framework that allows JavaScript to run on and interact with IOS and Android phones in the same way as native code does.
Design Patterns for Cocoa: MVC and MVVM
In this article, you'll be learning about the MVC (Model-View-Controller) and the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) design patterns.
Apple Swift Package Manager : A Deep Dive
Apple has released it’s own package manager called ‘Swift Package Manager‘ to share and distribute Swift packages. It’s good to know that…
How to make an action repeat using Timer
Timers are a great way to run code on a repeating basis, and iOS has the Timer class to handle it for you. First, create a property of the type Timer!
Core Text Tutorial for iOS: Making a Magazine App
Learn how to make your own magazine app with custom text layout in this Core Text tutorial for iOS.
I have tried switching from Xcode to AppCode for iOS programming
Here are some of my findings when trying to switch from Xcode to AppCode for writing Swift code.
Auto Layout Magic: Content Sizing Priorities
What the hell is Content Hugging and Content Compression Resistance Priorites? Here a tutorial about Xcode Auto Layout Content Sizing Priorities
Here are fixes devs need for iOS 11 Webview Viewport on the iPhone X
This post helps you understand the Webview Viewport in iOS 11. In particular with any web-based apps that use fixed position header bars when they are built for iOS 11.