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Announcing Mastering SwiftUI Book for Xcode 12 and iOS 14

We are launching the update of our Mastering SwiftUI book for Xcode 12 and iOS 14. Along with the release of Xcode 12, Apple released a big update to the SwiftUI framework with a lot of additions. Other than adding new UI components to streamline your UI development, Xcode 12 introduces a new App lifecycle API for...

Building Collection Views in SwiftUI with LazyVGrid and LazyHGrid

The initial release of SwiftUI didn’t come with a native collection view. You can either build your own solution or use third party libraries. In this year’s WWDC, Apple introduced tons of new features for the SwiftUI framework. One of them is to address the need of implementing grid views. SwiftUI now...

Learn SwiftUI Using Swift Playgrounds for iPad and Mac

“I only have an iPad. Can I use it to develop iOS apps?” This is one of the most common questions for beginners. My answer is always “No, you need a Mac to run Xcode for iOS app development.” “But how about Swift Playgrounds for iPad? Can I use the app to learn Swift and app...

Announcing Mastering SwiftUI

We have just launched our new book – Mastering SwiftUI. As introduced to you earlier, this book teaches you how to build UIs and iOS apps with Apple’s brand new UI framework. It is written for both beginners and developers having some experience with Swift programming. We will dive deep into the framework,...

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...

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macOS

Deploying Mac Apps Outside App Store: How to Remember User Intent for Folders

When a macOS user specifically grants a sandboxed app access to a file/folder outside of that app’s container, that special access only survives until the app is closed. If the user reopens the app and wants to again read...

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iOS

Testing In-App Purchases Using StoreKit in Xcode 12

WWDC20 finished almost two months ago, but still we are all talking about the new frameworks, APIs, and improvements announced this year. Among all those there’s something that is going to have a strong impact to the way we...

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Announcement

Announcing Mastering Machine Learning with Core ML and Python

We’ve been working with Vardhan Agrawal, an iOS developer who has been actively contributed to the machine learning community, to write a book on machine learning and Core ML. Now we are happy to announce that the book “Mastering...

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iOS

SwiftUI Animation Basics: Building a Loading Indicator

Have you ever used the magic move animation in Keynote? With magic move, you can easily create slick animation between slides. Keynote automatically analyzes the objects between slides and renders the animations automatically. To...

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iOS

How to Reuse SwiftUI Views with LibraryContentProvider and Swift Package

WWDC 2020 introduced several new features and improvements in the entire spectrum of develpment in Apple ecosystem, and definitely every developer found lots of things to get excited with. One of those features regard Xcode 12...

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iOS

Using MusicKit and Apple Music API to Build a Music Player

Hey everyone and welcome back to the second and final part of this tutorial series where we explore the intricacies of Apple’s MusicKit by building our very own music player in SwiftUI that can stream songs from our Apple Music...

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iOS

Using LinkPresentation Framework to Present Rich Links in iOS Apps

While I’ve introduced you quite a number of new features announced in WWDC 2020. Let’s step back a bit and check out a useful framework introduced in WWDC 2019. At first glance, it does not look as significant or...

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macOS

Using Packages to create an installer for distributing macOS apps outside of the Mac App Store

macOS developers will most likely be faced with the requirement to build an installer for apps they want to — or must — distribute outside of the Mac App Store (MAS). There is also substantial economic incentive to...

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Swift

What’s New in Xcode 12 and Swift 5.3

WWDC 2020 was finished just a few days ago under unprecedented conditions for first time. Virtually, all developers around the globe had the chance for a seat in the front row, being able to learn about all new features and...