Welcome to part 3 of my series on How To Make iPhone Apps with no programming experience – where we’ll turn even the non-programmer into an iOS developer! Here’s the article index for the entire series in case you missed it. Today, we introduce the model view controller architecture pattern that all iOS apps are …
Welcome to part 2 of my series on How To Make iPhone Apps with no programming experience – where we’ll turn even the non-programmer into an iOS developer! Here’s the article index for the entire series in case you missed it. This time, we’re going to be diving a little deeper into the Objective-C programming …
Welcome to my series on How To Make iPhone Apps with no programming experience – where we’ll turn even the non-programmer into an iOS developer! Here’s the article index for the entire series in case you missed it. In this article, we’re going through some basic but core programming principles that you’ll need to build …
Every day, I’m building and working with applications that connect to remote data sources whether they’re files, feeds, databases, etc. I also do a lot of work daily involving video streaming to iOS devices. If you’ve had to build any sort of connected iOS app, I am pretty sure you’ve cursed at the iOS gods …
In this article, I wanted to document what I discovered in my search for an answer to the question: Is it an iOS best practice to avoid using Storyboards/XIBs and instead, create your views programmatically ? As a disclaimer, I personally tend to avoid using storyboards and XIBs simply because I feel that I’m more …
by Chris Ching Last updated October 15, 2018 Oct 15, 2018: Updated by Adrien Villez for the latest version of Swift and Xcode! Custom fonts can make all the difference in the world when you’re trying to convey a specific user experience. Luckily, it’s pretty easy to add your own fonts in your iOS app …
Hello! In this post, I’m going to show you guys how to use a remote config file for your iPhone/iPad application. In my experience, this isn’t something the client asks for or thinks about during requirements gathering (unless they have a technical manager on their side). However, even though it isn’t one of those things …
Most of the apps you’ll build will have to fetch some sort of data through the network whether it’s as simple as high scores, a configuration file or more complex data such as a large movie catalogue. While there are a few ways you could fetch data in your iPhone application and more than a …
If you have worked with the NSURLConnection class in iOS, then you may have come across this behaviour before; we were using the NSURLConnection class to download a remote XML file to check if there was an update for our app. When we changed the XML file on the remote server to indicate there was …