Set up, Manage and Protect your Apple devices at Work [Sponsor]
If you have ever set up new devices, you know that it can require a decent amount of time to configure them. This is especially true if employees have multiple devices. After setting up the devices, keeping an inventory of them,...
A Beginner’s Guide to CALayer
Welcome! This article will teach you about a key topic in iOS: layers. You probably already know about views in iOS, but you might not know that every single view is backed by something called layer. Layers are part of the Core...
Building a Speech-to-Text App Using Speech Framework in iOS 10
At WWDC 2016, Apple introduced the Speech framework, a useful API for speech recognition. In fact, Speech Kit is the framework which Siri uses for speech recognition. There are a handful of speech recognition frameworks available...
Displaying Facebook Ads in Your iOS Apps
Not so long time ago I was asked to integrate Facebook ads in a project. Without having done so before, I prepared myself for a potentially long process, even a little bit painful, and then I got started searching the docs....
Creating Gradient Colors Using CAGradientLayer
Every developer always uses color combinations along with images to produce a good-looking result when creating an app, trying always to achieve the best user experience possible. Sometimes, however, something more might be...
Parse Migration Part 3: Setting up Cloud Code, Dashboard, and Push Notifications on Parse Server
When Parse announced its shutdown last January, thousands of developers were upset and feared for the worst. In fact, Parse powers thousands of apps around the world, so the thought of Facebook shutting down its beloved developer...
How to Generate PDF using HTML Templates and UIPrintPageRenderer in iOS
Have you ever been asked to create PDF documents with content straight from your app? Have you ever even thought how to do that, if you’ve never done it before? Well, beginning the post by setting questions is a bit of...
What’s New in Swift 3
Apple integrated Swift 3 into Xcode 8 beta at WWDC and will release the final version later on this year. This is the language’s first version that is open source and works both on Mac OS X and Linux. If you have followed the...
Building React Native Mobile Apps with NativeBase [Sponsor]
React Native is the holy grail of mobile app development, dream of every web developer who wanted to build amazing mobile apps. JavaScript had already taken the tech industry by storm from browsers to servers and now it’s helping...
Using CocoaPods in Your Swift and Objective-C Projects
Understanding CocoaPods, a dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C projects, is a critical skill every iOS developer should have. If you have no experience with CocoaPods, this short post is written for you. We’re...