Language Detection and Text to Speech in SwiftUI Apps
With the advent of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the iOS SDK already comes with a number of frameworks for developers to develop apps with machine learning-related features. In this tutorial, let’s explore...
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...
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...
Deep Dive into Swift 5.5’s Async/await Concurrency Model
In designing the async/await construct, Apple is hoping to increase the readability, and thus maintainability, of implementing concurrency/parallelism in Swift. What I see in it are attempts: to make asynchronous/parallel code...
Displaying a Bottom Sheet in iOS 15 Using UISheetPresentationController
With the release of SwiftUI, some people have asked if UIKit is going to be dead. It’s far from dead. In iOS 15, Apple’s engineers continues to pour new features into UIKit. One of the highlights is...
Building 3D AR Apps Using Reality Composer and RealityKit
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...
The Complete Guide to PHPicker API in iOS 14
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...
Using Diffable Data Source with Collection Views
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,...
A Step by Step Guide on how to Create a XCFramework and Distribute it as a Swift package
In WWDC 2019, Apple announced a brand new feature for Xcode 11; the capability to create a new kind of binary frameworks with a special format called XCFramework. That was fantastic news to anyone, since an ongoing inconvenient...
iOS 14 Updates in UIKit: ColorPicker, DatePicker, Menus and Actions
By the time SwiftUI was announced and given to developers in WWDC 2019, it was made obvious that this was going to be the future for developing applications for all Apple devices. However, even though SwiftUI might be the...