How to Create Confetti Animations in SwiftUI
From time to time, we received questions about how to create confetti animations. Undoubtedly, you can build the animation from the ground up using SwiftUI or UIKit. Recently I came across an open source library called...
Using Lottie and SwiftUI to Create Awesome Animations
A few years ago, I wrote a tutorial about the Lottie library. A reader asked if he could use the library in SwiftUI projects. So, in this tutorial, let’s revisit this amazing library and see how we can use it in SwiftUI...
Celebrating 10 Years of AppCoda
I can’t believe it’s been ten years since starting AppCoda. AppCoda already turned 10 years old in Apr 2022! When I wrote my first article on the blog, I couldn’t imagine it would bring me so many opportunities...
Working with Image Tracking in ARKit
Starting from iOS 12, developers can use the back-facing camera to detect and track known images by using an API called ARImageTrackingConfiguration. What does it mean to you? If you’ve watched the Harry Potter movie...
Using Markdown in SwiftUI
Other than all the big features such as AsyncImage and searchable, the iOS 15 SDK also introduced some minor improvements to streamline the development of iOS apps. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Markdown in...
Intermediate iOS Programming with Swift is Now Updated for iOS 15 and Xcode 13
This intermediate book (over 950 pages) uses a problem-solution approach to teach you Swift programming and covers some of the common APIs provided by the iOS SDK including Core ML and ARKit. The book and the source code bundled...
Swift Playgrounds 4: Building a Text to Speech App Entirely on iPad
In WWDC 21, one of the announcements that caught my attention was the massive changes of Swift Playgrounds. Not only can you learn Swift using Playgrounds, the new update allows developers to create apps entirely on iPad and...
Mastering SwiftUI is now updated for iOS 15 and Xcode 13
We’ve just released an update for our SwiftUI book – Mastering SwiftUI. All the content including screenshots and source code are updated for Xcode 13 and iOS 15. On top of that, we added new chapters to cover...
SwiftUI: How to Display Web Page Using WKWebView
It is very common that you need to display web content in your apps. The iOS SDK provides three options for developers to show web content: Mobile Safari, WKWebView, and SFSafariViewController. In iOS 14 (or later), the SwiftUI...
Announcing Beginning iOS Programming with Swift for iOS 15 and Xcode 13
After months of hard work, the new edition of our Beginning iOS Programming with Swift course for iOS 15 and Xcode 13 is now officially launched. In addition to updating our course for iOS 15 and Xcode 13, this new update comes...