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Our Swift Books and Course are Updated for iOS 12, Swift 5, and Xcode 10

Our flagship course – Beginning iOS 12 Programming with Swift, which is now fully updated for Xcode 10, Swift 5, and iOS 12. As always, whether the course is delivered through eBooks or video tutorials, it is designed for absolute beginners and those with some programming background. This course assumes you have...

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...

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How to Resolve “Couldn’t instantiate class named WKWebView” Error When Using WebKit

I got a question from a reader about the following error when using WKWebView in storyboard: Could not instantiate class named WKWebView because no class named WKWebView was found; the class needs to be defined in source code or...

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How USDZ Enables New Experiences for ARKit

At WWDC 2018, Apple announced various improvements to its support for Augmented Reality experiences and one of those was the support of a new file format, USDZ. USDZ enables new experiences and adds new ways in which users can...

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macOS Programming Tutorial: Working with Custom Views and Cocoa Controls

Great apps have great user interfaces, and chances to build a great interface entirely inside the views of the view controllers in the storyboard file(s) are small. Usually, complex views are being designed in separate Xib...

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How to Add Apple Pencil Support to your iPad Apps

In October 2018, Apple announced the brand new iPad Pro and the all-new Apple Pencil 2.0. Unlike the previous generation of the Apple Pencil, this utensil offers developers some extra fun APIs to play around with in order to...

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RESTful APIs Tutorial: Creating Your Own Lightweight REST Library in Swift

Most applications nowadays communicate with servers to exchange data, and they do so by consuming RESTful APIs, also called RESTful web services. Using REST, applications can send requests to servers, and servers send responses...

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How to Use Git Pull Requests to Improve Code Quality and Developer Participation

Today, we’ll talk about a feature of several well-known Git tools that I prefer to call a “merge request,” but tends often to be referred to as a “pull request,” for example, on sites like GitHub and...

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App Showcase

Interview with Steven Chan, Founder of GoodNotes: How He Turned an App Idea into a Profitable Business

In his last semester of university, Steven Chan registered for as many bird courses as possible and staked all his efforts into a new app. Since then, he has built his product GoodNotes into an award-winning app featured on...

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Building tvOS Movie Database App using The Movie Database (TMDb) API

tvOS is the operating system, developed by Apple, for their TV line of hardware. It was first introduced in September 2015 when Apple released the 4th generation Apple TV to the consumer. tvOS is based on iOS, so it inherits many...

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macOS Programming Tutorial: Working with Alerts, Sheets and Modal Windows

One of the basic, yet vital things a developer should know when creating macOS apps is how to present alerts, system panels or custom windows to their apps. Regardless of how small or big an app is, it will always be necessary to...

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Using Google Cloud Translation API to Power Your App with Instant Translation

One of the several services and APIs that developers can use from Google is the Cloud Translation API, which offers the ability to perform machine learning (ML) based translations of any string into any supported language. The...