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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 Add Splash Screen in Your iOS App

Before moving onto another detailed tutorial about Storyboard, I’d like to first answer a couple of questions left in comment or in our forum. One question is: How can I add a splash screen for my app? Is it difficult to...

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Enhance Your Simple Table App With Property List

Here comes another weekly tutorial for iOS programming. We already built a very simple table app displaying list of recipes. If you look into the app, all our recipes are specified in the source code. I try to keep the thing...

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How To Handle Row Selection in UITableView

If you’ve followed the iOS programming tutorials, I believe you should manage to create a simple Table View app with custom table cell. So far we focus on displaying data in the table view. But how do we know when someone...

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Customize Table View Cells for UITableView

Previously, we have created a simple Table View app to display list of recipes with a pre-defined image. In this tutorial, we’ll continue to work on the app and make it even better: Display different images for different...

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iOS Programming Tutorial: Create a Simple Table View App

Update: If you’re using Xcode 5, please check out the new tutorial about UITableView. Is it fun to create the Hello World app? In this tutorial, we’ll work on something more complex and build a simple app using Table...

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iOS Programming Basic: How Does the Hello World App Work?

I hope you enjoy the first iOS programming tutorial and already created your first app. Before we move onto the next tutorial and build a more complex app, let’s step back and have a closer look at the Hello World app....

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Hello World! Build Your First iPhone App

Update: This tutorial only works for Xcode 4.6 or lower. If you’ve upgraded to Xcode 5, please check out the updated Hello World tutorial. We also published a new screencast to walk you through the process and updated the...

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How To Download Older Version of Xcode

In the previous article, I suggest you to download and install Xcode 4.3.2 for iOS development as all our upcoming tutorials will be written using this version. A few readers have raised a question about Xcode: Download refused...

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What You Need to Begin iOS Programming

Update: The post is updated to make it compatible with Xcode 5 and iOS 7. Update #2: You can now refer to this sample chapter of our Beginning iOS 9 Programming with Swift book to learn what you need to start iOS programming. So...

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Announcement

Why Launching AppCoda?

Last September, I released my first iPhone app on the App Store. It’s truly an amazing experience to develop an app. I have been programming for 10 years and developed various kinds of business systems. Yet this is the very...