Last week, I had the pleasure of using Sketch 3 to redesign the UI of an app we’re building inside the Objective C App course (No longer offered. New course here). I hadn’t planned to redesign it, but after reading Meng To’s book, Design+Code, I became inspired to do better. Additionally, I was quite a …
This tutorial is a continuation from Part 1 where we went through a comparison between Swift and Objective C for various operations involving variables, classes, methods and properties. This tutorial is best suited for people who already know Objective-C (at least the basics) and want to see what the equivalents are in Swift. If you’re …
Continue Reading…Learn Swift from Objective-C : Conditionals, Control Structures and Collections
In this article series, we’re going to look at some of the differences between Swift and Objective-C. This tutorial is best suited for people who already know Objective-C (at least the basics) and want to see what the equivalents are in Swift. If you’re a non-programmer and you’re just beginning your journey into iOS development, …
Continue Reading…Learn Swift From Objective-C : Variables, Classes, Methods and Properties
Since most of the readers and students of the course started their iOS development journey with Objective-C, I’m writing this article series to introduce the Swift programming language by showing Objective-C code snippets and their Swift equivalents. In the next few articles, we’ll start comparing things like variables, classes, methods and properties between the two …
Continue Reading…Learn Swift From Objective-C : Introduction
Oct 14 2018, updated for Xcode 10 and Swift 4.2 by Adrien Villez! In this AVAudioPlayer tutorial, we’re going to go through an example of playing a sound file that you’ve added to your Xcode project. You’ll see that it’s actually a really simple task to accomplish! Adding the framework to your project The first …
Continue Reading…How To Play Sounds – AVAudioPlayer Tutorial (For 2018)
Oct 14, 2018: Updated by Adrien Villez for the latest Xcode 10! This tutorial will show you how to start an Xcode project to build an iPhone app with a tab bar along the bottom of the screen. In most of my tutorials and demos, we start with a Single View Application Xcode project which …
Continue Reading…Starting an iOS Tab Bar App with UITabBarViewController (Updated 2018)
Oct 14, 2018: Updated by Adrien Villez for the latest Xcode 10! 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 …
Continue Reading…UIPickerView Example and Tutorial (Updated 2018)
Oct 14 2018: Updated by Adrien Villez for Xcode 10 and Swift 4.2! 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 …
Continue Reading…UISlider Tutorial and Example (Updated for 2018)
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 …
Continue Reading…iAd Tutorial – How To Integrate iAd Banners Into Your App
Oct 22, 2018: Updated and revised by Adrien Villez This is it! The end of the tunnel! After working on your app for days, weeks and months … it’s finally time to set it free and publish it to the world. First, your app needs to run properly and be clean of errors (the red …