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Announcing Beginning iOS 11 Programming with Swift

After months of work, we are thrilled to announce our flagship course – Beginning iOS 11 Programming with Swift, which is now fully updated for Xcode 9, Swift 4 and iOS 11. Of course, you will learn how to design your apps for the brand new iPhone X. Designed for absolute beginners and those with some...

Building a Simple ARKit Demo with SceneKit in Swift 4 and Xcode 9

Augmented reality is here. It is coming in a BIG way. Remember Pokemon Go? Well, that’s just a taste of augmented reality. Apple is bringing augmented reality to the masses starting with iOS 11. With iOS 11, hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads are going to be AR capable. This will make ARKit the largest AR...

Beginning macOS Programming: Learn to Develop an Image Uploader App in Swift

Do you want to learn how to develop your very own macOS app that you can be proud of and use it on your personal MacBook? Or maybe you have a stirring passion to start developing on Mac? Then you are at the right place! Here, I will walk you through the steps in developing what could be your first very macOS app with...

Using Braintree to Accept Credit Card Payment in iOS Apps

Nowadays, more people look to their mobile devices to surf the web than traditionally fixed devices. And when they’re on their phones, they’re using apps. Indeed, people spend 85% of their time on their phones using apps. Basically, this means that every day, more and more people are using apps on their...

Test Driven Development (TDD) in Swift with Quick and Nimble

Writing tests of any sort on a mobile application project has not been a very popular choice and in fact, most mobile project teams actually want to avoid writing tests as much as possible to speed up development. As a “grown-up” developer, I have tasted the goodness of writing tests, not only does it...

Introduction to ReplayKit: Building a Simple Screen Recording App

Who doesn’t love playing games on their iPhone? I think that my friends and family would agree that I waste way too much time on my phone playing games. However, games are one of the many things that show off the incredible things an iPhone can do with its crazy power and beautiful display. Almost everyone who...

Creating a Prisma-like App with Core ML, Style Transfer and Turi Create

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...

Design Patterns in Swift #1: Factory Method and Singleton

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...

ARKit 2.0 Tutorial: Saving and Restoring World-mapping Data to Create a Persistence AR Experience

Welcome to the eighth installment of our ARKit tutorial series. Starting from iOS 12, ARKit has the capability to persist world mapping data. In the past, you can’t save the AR world mapping data. iOS 12 has given...

Design Patterns in Swift #2: Observer and Memento

This tutorial is the second installment in an AppCoda series on design patterns started last week. There are 23 classic software development design patterns probably first identified, collected, and explained all in one place by...

Creating a Prisma-like App with Core ML, Style Transfer and Turi Create

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...

Design Patterns in Swift #1: Factory Method and Singleton

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...

An Introduction to AR Quick Look in iOS 12

At WWDC 2018, Apple released ARKit 2.0 with a slew of brand new APIs and features for Augmented Reality Development. One of these features was an addition to their Quick Look APIs. If you’re not familiar with what Quick...

Introduction to Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12

At WWDC 2018 in San Jose, Apple announced Siri Shortcuts, a long-awaited feature which empowers developers to extend and augment the capabilities of Siri within their own apps. Previously, the SiriKit SDK was quite limited in its...

New in iOS 12: Adding a Custom UI and Interactivity in Local and Push Notifications

If you look at Apple’s “What’s New in iOS” 12 page, you’ll find a section entitled “Interactive Controls in Notifications,” which exclaims: Notification content app extensions now support user...

What’s New in Core ML 2

Core ML is Apple’s Machine Learning framework. Released just a year ago, Core ML offers developers a way to integrate powerful and smart machine learning capabilities into their apps with just a few lines of code! This...

Integrating Google ML Kit in iOS for Face Detection, Text Recognition and Many More

Just as Apple does a lot for its developer community, another company which goes to great lengths to create amazing tools and services for its developers is Google. In recent years, Google has released and improved its services...