iOS Programming 101: How To Send SMS Text Message in iPhone Apps
This is a quick follow-up to the previous post on email attachment. Some of you mentioned if we can write a short tutorial about sending SMS text messages within iOS apps. So here we go. Not only designed for email, the Message...
iOS Programming 101: How To Create Email with Attachment
A year ago, we wrote a short tutorial to show you how to send email using MessageUI framework. Some asked how to attach a photo, PDF document or Powerpoint in the email. Instead of replying every email individually, we think...
How To Add a Slide-out Sidebar Menu in Your Apps
Editor’s note #1: This post has been updated for Xcode 6 and iOS 8. The demo app now supports the latest version of SWRevealViewController. Editor’s note #2: If you’re using Swift, please check out the Swift...
Adding Local Notifications in Your iOS App
Before we dive into the local notification tutorial, let’s first talk about the history. Way back in iOS 3.0, Apple introduced the Push Notification Service (APNS) to bring the multitasking support to its mobile operating...
iOS Programming 101: Simple Animation Using UIImageView
As you may know, we have released our first iOS game on App Store. Honestly, we do not have any game development experience. As we always said, “getting your hands dirty is the best way to learn programming”. We...
Create Static Table View Using Storyboard
After we published the iCloud programming tutorial, the first question from our readers is not about iCloud but related to the static table view. If you’ve followed our tutorials, you should have a basic understanding about...
iOS Programming 101: Record and Play Audio using AVFoundation Framework
Editor’s note: Some of you asked us to write a tutorial about audio recording. This week, we work with Yiqi Shi and Raymond from Purple Development to give you an introduction of AVFoundation framework. Yiqi and Raymond are...
Handling Single and Multiple Selection in Collection View
In the past two tutorials, we covered the basics of UICollectionView and header/footer customization. You should already know how to display items using UICollectionView. However, we haven’t covered how to interact with the...
How to Add Header and Footer View in UICollectionView
Previously, we covered the basics of UICollectionView and showed you how to present items in grid layout. It’ll be interesting to spilt recipes into different sections. Let’s say, the first section contains recipes...
Create Grid Layout Using UICollectionView in iOS 6
Do you still remember the Recipe app that we have worked on several months ago? At that time, we showed you how to display a list of recipes using UITableView. Wouldn’t be great if it can display the recipe in a nice grid...