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...
Using Sleep Analysis in HealthKit with Swift
Today, Sleep Revolution is a fad and users are curious than ever to not only know about the the time they’ve been asleep but also to analyze the data gathered over a period to reveal their sleeping trends. Advancements in...
Building a Custom Content View with UITableView and MapKit
This is a guest post by Sean Choo, the developer of Cureto. In this tutorial, he will show us how he implements the app’s article view using custom table view. Hi everyone, I am Sean Choo, a Malaysian who is currently...
WWDC Scholarship Interviews Part 1: Meet the Scholars and See What They Have Built
Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (also known as WWDC and known better by attendees as DubDub) will be held from June 13-17. Each year, over 5,000 iOS developers from around the world gather to learn more about the new...
Building a Simple Barcode Reader App in Swift
In the hand of the clerk at the local grocer’s checkout line, helping to check in bags and passengers at the airport, or assisting in the tedious inventory process at a major retailer, a barcode scanner is simply a handy tool. In...
Documenting Your Swift Code in Xcode Using Markdown
Amongst all the features Xcode 7 incorporates, there is one that admittedly distinguishes; that is the new revolutionary, much better way to write code documentation. With the introduction of Xcode 7, developers can use the...
Using Quick Look Framework for Previewing Documents
Several treasures like not so well-known frameworks and libraries can be found in the iOS SDK. Most of them can be proved to be real gems and truly useful tools, saving you from hours of extra work. One of them is the Quick Look...
An Introduction to Operator Overloading in Swift
Operator overloading is one of the most powerful features of any computer programming language, so Apple decided to make it available for development in Swift. However, with great power comes great responsibility. You can easily...
Building a Fitness App Using HealthKit to Track Walking Distance
According to the news, health and fitness are more important today than at any point in history. It’s funny, though, as I seem to remember the news telling me the same thing a couple of days ago. Maybe it’s just a feeling that...