If you’ve been following Apple’s announcements from the past year, you know that they are heavily invested in machine learning. Ever since they introduced Core ML last year at WWDC 2017, there are tons of apps which have sprung up which harness...
There are 23 classic software development design patterns probably first identified, collected, and explained all in one place by the “Gang of Four” (“GoF”), Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides in their seminal...
In this article, we will face a question that we should always ask ourselves when writing a function: How should I name this function? Although this question looks simple, getting it answered properly determines a crucial aspect...
Do you want to build a car (Testable Architecture) that can run fast (less compile time), save petrol (repeated code) and can be easily learnt (readable) & driven (picked up) by any licensed driver? Then you have come to the...
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...
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to leverage Xcode targets to control the massive complexity involved in building iOS (and macOS, watchOS, and tvOS) apps. A lot of time can be saved when developers realize that not...
In this tutorial, I will go through the entire process of importing a 3D photogrammetry model into ARKit, and make it look as realistic as possible, using the tools that ARKit and SceneKit provide. The finished product:...
In the following tutorial, I will show you how to make a fun Dominoes game using Swift and ARKit. This is what we’ll be making: Prerequisites This is an intermediate tutorial and requires you to have a good understanding of Swift...
Apple presents new gadgets every year, and each of this device deserves the attention. But when iPhone X was presented to the public, rules of app designing were changed. With iPhone Xs announcement this year, UI/UX designers had...
Testing has been an essential part of most medium-to-large projects, hence, it is important that every code change to our main branches triggers a full execution of test suite, so as to ensure that the change we made does not...
Our flagship course – Beginning iOS 12 Programming with Swift, which is now fully updated for Xcode 10, Swift 4.2 and iOS 12. As always, whether the course is delivered through eBooks or video tutorials, it is designed for...
In this tutorial, I’m going to give you some best practices that will help you safely and effectively use classes (reference types) and reference semantics in Swift. Protocol-oriented programming (POP) and value semantics...