Passing Data in iOS: Delegates, Notifications, and Closures
Long time no see dear readers and Appcoda fans! It’s been a long time since my last post here at Appcoda, and I am really glad to be back! Today, I’m going to discuss about an important and definitely interesting...
Building an Interactive Voice App Using Custom Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12
Siri Shortcut is a new API that Apple introduced in iOS 12 built on top of SiriKit framework. It provides ways for developer to create custom shortcut to the activities that the user often used within the app. User invokes the...
How to Use Xcode Instrument to Optimize Your Swift Code
I still run across curmudgeons who flat out reject techniques like object-oriented programming (especially inheritance and polymorphism), protocols and protocol-oriented programming (especially composition), generics, and...
What’s New in Swift 4 by Example
Apple announced Swift 4 as part of Xcode 9 at WWDC a few weeks ago. Although still in beta during the summer until its final release in September, this is the first version of the language that doesn’t break your code. It brings...
Announcing Beginning iOS 10 Programming with Swift Book
After months of work, we are thrilled to announce our updated Swift book – Beginning iOS 10 Programming with Swift. The book now fully support Swift 3, Xcode 8 and iOS 10. Not only is it compatible with latest version of...
A First Look at Contacts Framework in iOS 9
As every iOS release, the version 9, which is officially here for just a few weeks, presents new features and improvements to existing technologies for both users and developers. As we’ve all witnessed, there’s a...
Our Swift Programming Book for Beginners Now Supports iOS 9, Xcode 7 and Swift 2
Update: Apple is going to release iOS 10 and Xcode 8 this fall. We’re updating all our Swift books for the new version of iOS and Xcode. If you purchase any of our Swift books now, you’ll get a free update of the book...
How To Create a Custom Search Bar Using UISearchController
Quite often it’s required from iOS applications to be capable of performing search in specific data that is displayed in a tableview. Undoubtably, most of developers have faced that situation, and the most usual approach to...
Creating a Selectable Table App Using WatchKit
Apple announced WatchOS 2 at WWDC this year. WatchOS 2 features a lot of new frameworks that are now accessible for developers. These include programmatic access to the digital crown, new ways to play video and audio, use of the...
Working with CloudKit in iOS 8
One of the greatest tasks that developers have to perform, is to find and implement a proper way to store the application data. Undoubtably, there’s no application in any platform that doesn’t need to save some kind...