Using CocoaPods in Your Swift and Objective-C Projects
Understanding CocoaPods, a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects, is a critical skill every iOS developer should have. If you have no experience with CocoaPods, this short post is written for you. We’re...
Using Sleep Analysis in HealthKit with Swift
Today, Sleep Revolution is a fad and users are curious than ever to not only know about the the time they’ve been asleep but also to analyze the data gathered over a period to reveal their sleeping trends. Advancements in...
Building a Custom Content View with UITableView and MapKit
This is a guest post by Sean Choo, the developer of Cureto. In this tutorial, he will show us how he implements the app’s article view using custom table view. Hi everyone, I am Sean Choo, a Malaysian who is currently...
Building a Simple Barcode Reader App in Swift
In the hand of the clerk at the local grocer’s checkout line, helping to check in bags and passengers at the airport, or assisting in the tedious inventory process at a major retailer, a barcode scanner is simply a handy tool. In...
Documenting Your Swift Code in Xcode Using Markdown
Amongst all the features Xcode 7 incorporates, there is one that admittedly distinguishes; that is the new revolutionary, much better way to write code documentation. With the introduction of Xcode 7, developers can use the...
Building a Geo Targeting iOS App in Swift
Geo targeting is the method to show different content to your users based on their geographic location, such as country, region, city or any other criteria. There are a lot of common uses of geo targeting. Imagine a customer...
Advanced Parse Tips: PFObject Subclassing, Caching, Access Control and User Signup
Welcome to the advanced Parse article! In this tutorial, we will be covering some advanced Parse techniques which you can use in your own apps to add new features. We will cover the following: Native PFObject subclasses Efficient...
Using Quick Look Framework for Previewing Documents
Several treasures like not so well-known frameworks and libraries can be found in the iOS SDK. Most of them can be proved to be real gems and truly useful tools, saving you from hours of extra work. One of them is the Quick Look...
Parse Migration: How to Setup and Deploy Parse Server on Heroku or AWS
Following up on my previous post on migrating a parse database to a self-hosted MongoDB instance, in this spring-themed tutorial, we will take a look at how to host the parse server on Heroku and Amazon Web Services. For those...