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Our Swift Books and Course are Updated for iOS 12, Swift 4.2, and Xcode 10

Our flagship course – Beginning iOS 12 Programming with Swift, which is now fully updated for Xcode 10, Swift 4.2 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...

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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Design Patterns in Swift #1: Factory Method and Singleton

There are 23 classic software development design patterns probably first identified, collected, and explained all in one place by the “Gang of Four” (“GoF”), Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and...

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An Introduction to AR Quick Look in iOS 12

At WWDC 2018, Apple released ARKit 2.0 with a slew of brand new APIs and features for Augmented Reality Development. One of these features was an addition to their Quick Look APIs. If you’re not familiar with what Quick...

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Introduction to Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12

At WWDC 2018 in San Jose, Apple announced Siri Shortcuts, a long-awaited feature which empowers developers to extend and augment the capabilities of Siri within their own apps. Previously, the SiriKit SDK was quite limited in its...

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New in iOS 12: Adding a Custom UI and Interactivity in Local and Push Notifications

If you look at Apple’s “What’s New in iOS” 12 page, you’ll find a section entitled “Interactive Controls in Notifications,” which exclaims: Notification content app extensions now support user...

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What’s New in Core ML 2

Core ML is Apple’s Machine Learning framework. Released just a year ago, Core ML offers developers a way to integrate powerful and smart machine learning capabilities into their apps with just a few lines of code! This...

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Integrating Google ML Kit in iOS for Face Detection, Text Recognition and Many More

Just as Apple does a lot for its developer community, another company which goes to great lengths to create amazing tools and services for its developers is Google. In recent years, Google has released and improved its services...

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View Controller Lifecycle Explained: When to Use viewDidLayoutSubviews

As an iOS Developer, we are always concerned that we are lacking in knowledge or sometimes we felt that we are inadequate in skills. We say to you all programmers out there, you know enough and be patient with yourself as you...

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Introduction to Create ML: How to Train Your Own Machine Learning Model in Xcode 10

In case you weren’t aware, Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference happened this week! It was a big event with a lot of improvements to both the software and the current frameworks Apple currently has. One of these...

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How to Integrate Your App with Files App in iOS 11

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to embrace iOS 11’s Files app. First, I’ll walk you through configuration of an app so that any files stored in its iOS file system-based “Documents” folder are...

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Building Your First Blockchain App in Swift

Blockchain is one of the many disruptive technologies that has just started to gain traction among many people. Why? This is because blockchain is the founding technology for many cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and...