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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...

Introduction to ReplayKit: Building a Simple Screen Recording App

Who doesn’t love playing games on their iPhone? I think that my friends and family would agree that I waste way too much time on my phone playing games. However, games are one of the many things that show off the incredible things an iPhone can do with its crazy power and beautiful display. Almost everyone who...

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Swift 4 Generics: How to Apply Them in Your Code and iOS Apps

Question 1: Can I write one Swift function that can find the index/position of any specific instance of any type stored in any array that stores objects of that type? Question 2: Can I write one Swift function that can determine...

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Creating a Custom Core ML Model Using Python and Turi Create

In the past few years, the use of machine learning approaches to solve problems and perform complex tasks have been increasing. Machine learning enables us to use big data to perform complex tasks, such as image classification...

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ARKit Tutorial: Understanding Physics by Launching a Rocketship

Did that just move? Is that real? That’s augmented reality. Welcome back to the fourth installment of the ARKit tutorial series. In this tutorial, we will be looking at the basics of physics inside of ARKit. We shall launch a...

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Working with URL Schemes in iOS Apps

The URL scheme is an interesting feature provided by the iOS SDK that allows developers to launch system apps and third-party apps through URLs. For example, let’s say your app displays a phone number, and you want to make...

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Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Swift

There are several underused and not-so-popular frameworks hidden in the iOS SDK. Some of them can be useful and time-saving tools. The Natural Language Processing Class is one of them. Available in both Swift and Obj-C, the...

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Building a Barcode and QR Code Reader in Swift 4 and Xcode 9

So, what’s QR code? I believe most of you know what a QR code is. In case you haven’t heard of it, just take a look at the above image – that’s a QR code. QR (short for Quick Response) code is a kind of...

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ARKit Tutorial: Detecting Horizontal Planes and Adding 3D Objects with SceneKit

Augmented reality has the power to amplify the world in ways never possible before. The way in which we interact with our world may never be the same again. With the release of iPhone X, the world is ready to embrace AR now more...

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Recording ARKit Videos & Animated GIFs Using ARVideoKit

Mobile augmented reality has been a trend recently and it’s been implemented in many applications to provide more interactive, fun experiences to share with people. Hence, major augmented reality frameworks, such as ARKit,...

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Building a Chatbot App for iOS with Dialogflow (API.AI) and Text-to-Speech

With the latest release of Apple’s Core ML, developers are one step closer to building Artificial Intelligence apps with ease. While image recognition and text detection are great examples of apps that utilize AI, another...

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ARKit Tutorial: Understanding and Implementing 3D Objects

Having great visual elements can give your App a unique personality. In this tutorial, we will look at 3D objects creation toolsets, online resources for 3D objects, SceneKit supported formats, most importantly, learn to build a...