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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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macOS Programming: Working with Dark Theme and Building a BMI Calculator

Welcome to another macOS programming tutorial! In the previous post we made our introductory steps on macOS programming world as we discussed about fundamental concepts. In this tutorial, we are going to explore and unveil new...

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Getting Started with macOS Programming

Dear readers, let me welcome you and start by saying that this tutorial is the beginning of a new journey and new explorations, as it’s the first of a series of tutorials on a new topic: macOS programming! Developing for...

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Passing Data in iOS: Delegates, Notifications, and Closures

Long time no see dear readers and Appcoda fans! It’s been a long time since my last post here at Appcoda, and I am really glad to be back! Today, I’m going to discuss about an important and definitely interesting...

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Introduction to Flutter: Building iOS and Android Apps from a Single Codebase

Welcome to my first tutorial on Flutter. I have never written any post on cross-platform or hybrid app framework but Flutter has changed this mindset of mine. Previously, I have developed on React Native, Cordova, Phone Gap,...

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Building a Trello-like iOS App with Drag & Drop API

Drag & Drop is the user interaction that works naturally when we want to build an app where user can move data around the screen. It’s being used heavily by apps like Trello, Jira, and many others to move data between boards....

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Debugging Out of Memory Issues: Catching Layout Feedback Loop with the Runtime Magic

Let’s imagine this scenario: you’ve got a successful app with a great number of daily users and 100% crash-free rate. You are happy and your life is amazing. But at some point you start seeing negative reviews coming to the App...

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Implementing a Heap Based Priority Queue Using Swift

There is a wealth of problems in computer science where using a priority queue as your underlying data structure can greatly improve the time complexity of your algorithm. One example is Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm, where...

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Avoiding Massive View Controller using Containment & Child View Controller

View Controller is the component that provides basic building block that we use as a foundation to build application in iOS development. In Apple MVC world, it sits as a middle man between the View and Model, acting as an...

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Building an Interactive Voice App Using Custom Siri Shortcuts in iOS 12

Siri Shortcut is a new API that Apple introduced in iOS 12 built on top of SiriKit framework. It provides ways for developer to create custom shortcut to the activities that the user often used within the app. User invokes the...

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Function Naming in Swift

In this article, we will face a question that we should always ask ourselves when writing a function: How should I name this function? Although this question looks simple, getting it answered properly determines a crucial aspect...