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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...

Search Ads Explained: How to Create an Ad Campaign to Promote Your Apps

Welcome to the first article of our App Marketing Series! If you do not know what this series is about and why we want to teach you app marketing, please read the previous article first. In this tutorial, we will start with Search Ads. You will learn what it is, how Search Ads helps promoting your app and how you can...

Announcing App Marketing Series

Hi everyone, this is Felix, I am an entrepreneur and a digital marketer. Like many of us, curiosity in creation of mobile applications leads us to AppCoda, yet particular for me, I was looking for urgent fix. Four years ago I signed a mobile app development contract with a big client in Hong Kong, and all of a sudden...

A Beginner’s Guide to Core ML Tools: Converting a Caffe Model to Core ML Format

Welcome to the second part of the Core ML tutorial series. In this tutorial you will learn how to set up a Python virtual environment, acquire a data model not in the Core ML format, convert that model into a Core ML format, and finally integrate it into your app. It is highly recommended that you read the previous...

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An Introduction to SpriteKit Part 3: Scaling an Object

Welcome back to our SpriteKit tutorial series. In the first part of the series, you have centered the label on the screen using scenes, nodes and points. In the series second part, you have moved the label on the screen using...

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A Beginner’s Guide to SiriKit in Swift

Editor’s note: Last year, Apple opened up Siri for developers by introducing a new framework called SiriKit. Developers can adopt SiriKit to enable their apps to interact with Siri. In this tutorial, Jayven will walk you...

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Building a Full Screen Camera App Using AVFoundation

Today, we’ll be learning how to use AV Foundation, an Apple system framework that exists on macOS and iOS, along with watchOS and tvOS. The goal of this tutorial will be to help you build a fully functional iOS app...

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Introduction to the Accelerate Framework 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 Accelerate Framework is one of them. Available in both Swift and Obj-C, the Accelerate...

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A Beginner’s Guide to Protocols and Protocol Extensions in Swift

Welcome to the tutorial on protocols and protocol oriented programming in Swift! In this tutorial, we’re going to talk about what protocols are and how you can use them in conjunction with protocol oriented programming. We’ll...

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Getting Started with Apple’s ResearchKit

Medical research study is being carried out usually by giving stack of papers and numerous question forms to participants to fill up. Electronic surveys are also carried out to know participants habits better. But it is a tedious...

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A Beginning’s Guide to Lottie: Creating Amazing Animations in iOS Apps

Good UI animations can greatly improve user experience of a mobile app if it is done precisely. It is usually one of the factors that differentiates a great app from a mediocre one. Designing a meaningful and functional animation...

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An Introduction to SpriteKit Part 2: Actions, Sequences and Gesture Recognizers

In the first part of the tutorial series, you have learned all you need to know about scenes, nodes, labels and points in SpriteKit by centering a label on the screen. In this part, you will move the label when you tap the screen...

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Implementing Push Notifications on iOS with Firebase

Push Notifications is a loud and powerful way for our apps to engage with our users. We engage with our users by letting them see values with their very owns eyes. Users see values. Users engage. We can engage our users by...

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Announcement

Celebrating 5 Years of AppCoda

Today we’re celebrating our fifth year of AppCoda. The past 12 months have been one of the big years for our team. We published a new edition of Swift books, organized several in-person Swift workshops, and ran a series of...