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Chris C • Sep 04 2019
How a 13 year old Built an App for his School of 1200 Students
How a 13 Year Old Built an App For His School of 1200 Students Pares M. is a 13 year old student from Johannesburg, South Africa. He’s probably one of the youngest developers publishing his first app “Dainfern College (DC) Reads” on the first try. His app is now being used across his school of… View Article
Chris C • May 29 2023
Learn iOS App Development in 14 Days
iOS app development is one of the most sought after skills today. But learning how to build apps without a plan leads to certain failure. This 14 Day Beginner Challenge gives you the exact learning plan to gain the core skills for iOS app development. It’s for absolute beginners and it’ll help you get results… View Article
Chris C • May 29 2023
The Best Way to Connect Your iOS App to MySQL Database (4 Steps)
In this article I’ll show you from start to finish, how to connect an iOS app to a MySQL database. Note: Newly updated for the latest version of Swift and Xcode! If you’re used to working on websites and web apps, you might think that your iPhone app can connect directly to MySQL but unfortunately… View Article
Chris C • Sep 23 2019
How Much Does It Cost To Make An App?
[social_warfare] You want to make an app? Well there’s more than one option and depending on your budget, your free time and risk tolerance level, one of the options below will suit you the most. Since prices vary amongst companies and freelancers, I decided to outline the cost relative to each other. I also highlight… View Article
Chris C • Sep 25 2019
Q&A: Can you develop iPhone apps on Windows?
[social_warfare] In this episode’s Q&A, I’m sharing my answer for a common question that I get all the time and that is: Can I use a PC and Windows to build iPhone and iPad apps? There are some PC based solutions which I talk about in the episode. If you would like to expand on… View Article
Chris C • Sep 05 2019
Using Parse with Swift and Xcode 6
[social_warfare] Parse is a platform that offers many tools and one of the things it provides is a “service as a back-end”. Parse takes care of the implementation of the back-end so that developers can focus on building their apps while still leveraging the power of having data persistence in the cloud. Long time reader,… View Article
Chris C • Jun 10 2020
Learn Swift from Objective-C : Protocols and Delegation
[social_warfare] This tutorial is a continuation from Part 1 and Part 2 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… View Article
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