A Beginner’s Guide to Animated Custom Segues in iOS 8
When the fifth version of iOS (iOS 5) was released to the public, it introduced a brand new, revolutionary approach to the way the interface of an application was designed. That was the use of storyboards, and it was meant to...
Creating Simple Animations with Facebook’s Pop Framework
Editor’s note: When Facebook released its Paper app, it generated a lot of buzz in the app world. If you’ve used Paper before, the visual news feed reader, you should be amazed by its beautiful and fluid user...
Creating Interactive Local Notifications in iOS 8
Notifications are the way of an application to communicate with users, especially when it’s not running in the foreground. A notification, as its name implies, is used to *notify* a user either about an event, or just to...
Building a QR Code Reader in Swift
So, what’s QR code? I believe most of you know what a QR code is. In case you haven’t heard of it, just take a look at the image below. That’s QR code. QR (short for Quick Response) code is a kind of...
Working with iOS 8 Handoff Part 2: Using Continuation Streams
In my last tutorial we met for first time the Handoff capability that was introduced in iOS 8.0. With it, an activity that is started in one iOS device can be continued to another from the point that was left off. Also, an...