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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...

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...

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iOS

Unable to Set Layout Constraint to Zero in Xcode 11.3

If you’ve upgraded to Xcode 11.3 and you use Interface Builder to create the app UI, you may find it impossible to set the value of spacing constraints to zero. Just open Interface Builder and click “Add new...

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iOS

Working with JSON and Codable in Swift 5

First, what’s JSON? JSON (short for JavaScript Object Notation) is a text-based, lightweight, and easy way for storing and exchanging data. It’s commonly used for representing structural data and data interchange in...

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macOS

Creating Status Bar Apps on macOS in Swift

Hello readers! I’d like to start today by saying that this is a macOS programming tutorial that I wanted to write for a long time now. Not only because it’s extremely interesting, but also because we are going to meet...

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iOS

A Practical Approach on Using Swift Package Manager in Xcode

Welcome to a new tutorial where I’m going to show you a practical approach on how to create your own Swift packages. If you’re not familiar with that term, a Swift package wraps up code that can be reused in projects,...

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App Showcase

6 Mobile AR Concepts for iOS in 2019

Following the footsteps of IKEA and L’Oreal, businesses across verticals started dreaming up uses for augmented reality (AR) that could enhance the customer experience. This massive growth of AR-based business applications can be...

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SwiftUI

Working with SwiftUI Gestures and @GestureState

If you’ve been programming with SwiftUI before, you probably got a taste of building gestures with SwiftUI. You use the onTapGesture modifier to handle a user’s touch and provide a corresponding response. In this...

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macOS

The Complete Guide to NSOutlineView in macOS Programming

Welcome to a new tutorial where we are going to unfold another cool topic on macOS programming. Today we are going to meet an important control, really useful for displaying hiearchical data, the outline view. Outline view...

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SwiftUI

How to Create Perspective Text Using SwiftUI

If you’ve worked with UIKit before, the Text control in SwiftUI is very similar to UILabel in UIKit. It’s a view for you to display one or multiple lines of text. This Text control is...

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macOS

macOS Programming: Using Menus and the Toolbar

Another macOS programming tutorial is here, and today we’re going to talk about a really interesting topic: Menus. Every macOS developer has to know about how to deal with menus, as they consist of a fundamental part on...