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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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ARKit Tutorial: Working with 2D Image Recognition

Welcome to the sixth installment of our ARKit tutorial series. This week we are going to talk about image recognition in augmented reality. Starting from iOS 11.3, ARKit has the capability to recognize 2D images. If you are...

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Announcement

6 Years of AppCoda

Today we are celebrating our sixth year of AppCoda. As I always mention, when I came up with an idea to create an iOS programming blog, I never imagine it would allow me to quit my corporate job and working on AppCoda full-time....

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Understanding Git Version Control and Learn how to Use it in Xcode 9

Everyone makes mistakes, it’s part of being human. I’m sure everyone reading this has one time or another made a huge mistake in their code and wished they could revert their project to the way it was an hour earlier....

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Protocol Oriented Programming in Swift: Is it better than Object Oriented Programming?

We’re going to talk in-depth about protocol-oriented programming (POP) using Swift 4 in this article. This post is the second and final article in a two part series. If you haven’t read the introductory article,...

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Protocol Oriented Programming in Swift: An Introduction

The greatest enemy of software developers is complexity, so when I hear about new technologies promising to help me manage chaos, I listen. One of the “hot” methodologies generating much attention recently (at least...

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Introduction to SnapKit: Make Auto Layout Easy for iOS App Development

Dear readers, it’s been a long time since my last post, so I’m happy to come back with a new tutorial, which I truly believe you’ll find quite interesting. Today I’d like to tell you about a third-party...

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Understanding Delegates and Delegation in Swift 4

I’m going to talk about “delegates” and “delegation.” I’ll lead you through a simple example of implementing the delegation design pattern in Swift 4, with full source code. My intent here is...

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How Flawless App Helps You Become a Better Designer and Developer

It’s 2018 out there and we are still struggling with interaction problems between designers and developers. While every team has different organizational structures when it comes to development and design, the problems remain the...

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ARKit Tutorial: Light Estimation with Ambient Intensity and Color Temperature

Once upon a time, a rock skid, made a spark, and humankind learned to create fire. This is the fifth installment of our ARKit series. Today, we will walk you through how to implement light estimation in augmented reality with...

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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...