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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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Protocol-oriented Data Structures in Swift 4: A Generic Doubly Linked List

Let’s talk about creating a list on steroids, i.e., a generic doubly linked list in Swift. For our purposes here, a list is a software receptacle that contains related data that we’re interested in inspecting,...

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Memory Management in Swift: Understanding Strong, Weak and Unowned References

Behind all the coding that we are doing, you probably have noticed some of your variables with the reference of strong, weak or unowned when writing your codes. What do they really mean? Does it make your variable stronger by...

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Design Patterns in Swift #3: Facade and Adapter

This tutorial is the third installment in our series on design patterns. I started this series with a tutorial examining two examples of patterns in the “creational” category: factory method and singleton. I then...

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UI Test Automation: Speed Up Mobile App UI Testing with Appium

At the time when you are reading this tutorial, millions, or billions of other users out there are probably browsing through an app on their smartphones. Having a smartphone with a huge collection of apps has already been an...

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ARKit 2.0 Tutorial: Saving and Restoring World-mapping Data to Create a Persistence AR Experience

Welcome to the eighth installment of our ARKit tutorial series. Starting from iOS 12, ARKit has the capability to persist world mapping data. In the past, you can’t save the AR world mapping data. iOS 12 has given...

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Design Patterns in Swift #2: Observer and Memento

This tutorial is the second installment in an AppCoda series on design patterns started last week. There are 23 classic software development design patterns probably first identified, collected, and explained all in one place by...

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Creating a Prisma-like App with Core ML, Style Transfer and Turi Create

If you’ve been following Apple’s announcements from the past year, you know that they are heavily invested in machine learning. Ever since they introduced Core ML last year at WWDC 2017, there are tons of apps which...