We are launching an iOS 14 update for our flagship iOS programming course – Beginning iOS 14 Programming with Swift. The course has been fully updated for iOS 14, Swift 5.3, and Xcode 12. The beginner book is still written for beginners who want to...
WWDC 2020 was finished just a few days ago under unprecedented conditions for first time. Virtually, all developers around the globe had the chance for a seat in the front row, being able to learn about all new features and improvements that Apple had to...
With the release of Xcode 12.5, Apple finally lets developers record videos and animated GIF right from simulators. In this tutorial, I will walk you through this new feature. Please note that the latest version of Xcode requires...
SwiftUI is a great framework in order to build user interfaces, as it speeds up and automates many tasks comparing to UIKit. However several features were missing during the original release. Thankfully, over the course of time...
RealityKit was a new framework introduced in 2019 to implement high-performance 3D simulation and rendering. We’ve explored ARKit development for 3D objects using SceneKit. In this tutorial, we will see how to build an...
SwiftUI has made it very easy for developers to create a list view, similar to a table view in UIKit. When working with table view in UIKit, you can easily configure a cell’s indicator by setting the accessoryType property....
ScrollViewReader is one of my favorite new features in the new version of SwiftUI. Before the release of iOS 14, it’s not easy to control the scrolling position of the built-in ScrollView. If you want the scroll view to...
Welcome to a new tutorial, where we are going to discuss about two quite interesting, related and interconnected concepts; how to scan images and perform text recognition on them. It might sound like a complicated task, but soon...
It’s easy to make an app by throwing some code together. But without best practices and robust architecture, you soon end up with unmanageable spaghetti code. Most programming courses teach you how to code, but don’t...
When the SwiftUI framework was first released, developers are required to wrap the MKMapView class in order to embed a map in a SwiftUI application. With the release of Xcode 12, the latest version of SwiftUI provides a native...
Importing photos and videos as media items is one of the most common features that the majority of iOS applications include. In general lines, there are two ways to do that; either by using a system-provided controller, or by...
If you have some experience with iOS app development, you should be very familiar with the data source protocols such as UICollectionViewDataSource and UITableViewDataSource. Traditionally, to populate data in a collection view,...