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Chris C • May 29 2023
UIPickerView Example and Tutorial (Updated 2018)
In this tutorial, we’ll walk though a basic implementation example of the UIPickerView which is a UI element that can be used to make a selection from multiple choices (similar to what a dropdown does for a webpage). Steps: Creating the Xcode project Adding and Connecting the UIPickerView Creating the Data Connecting the Data Detecting… View Article
Chris C • May 29 2023
UISlider Tutorial and Example
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you a simple demo of adding a slider to your app and capturing the value of the slider. The class we’re going to use is UISlider and it’s part of UIKit which is the framework you’re using to build your app. If you’re new to iOS development, you… View Article
Chris C • Mar 21 2019
iAd Tutorial – How To Integrate iAd Banners Into Your App
Now that you’ve spent all this time creating an app, you’d like to monetize it somehow right? Apple has a platform called iAd which allows app publishers to monetize their apps by placing either banner ads or full screen ads (or both) into the app. Here’s the iAd resources page for developers. It was actually… View Article
Chris C • Sep 25 2019
How to Deploy your App on an iPhone (Updated for 2019)
So you’ve been developing your app and testing it on the Simulator. However, did you know that there could be bugs that only show up when your app is running on an actual iOS device? Furthermore, testing your iOS app on a device is the best way to gauge performance issues before you go too… View Article
Chris C • Sep 04 2019
How To Make an iPhone App with MySQL and WordPress
Hello! In this guide, I’m going to show you guys how to make three different types of iPhone apps using web hosting, WordPress and MySQL databases to power them. Many people ask about how to connect their iPhone apps to a MySQL database or how to make an iPhone app for a website. The thing… View Article
Chris C • Sep 29 2019
Setting Up Your Web Hosting For MySQL and WordPress
This is Chapter 1 of 5 This article is the first chapter of a larger guide on how to use MySQL and WordPress to create and power iPhone apps. This guide shows you how to make three different apps that all leverage the different aspects of having a web hosting account and this first chapter… View Article
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