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Chris C • Sep 05 2019
XCode Tutorial: Create Our First XCode Project
Updated Oct 3 2013: This tutorial is compatible with XCode 5 AND XCode 4! We’re taking a practical approach to learning iOS programming. This means lots of hands on work and practice! In order to benefit the most from these lessons, you should open XCode and try to follow along. This is part 2 of… View Article
Chris C • Sep 25 2019
XCode Tutorial Practice 1: Hello World iPhone App
Updated Oct 3 2013: This tutorial is compatible with XCode 5 AND XCode 4! We’re taking a practical approach to learning iOS programming. This means lots of hands on work and practice! In order to benefit the most from these lessons, you should open XCode and try to follow along. This is part 4 of… View Article
Chris C • May 29 2023
Your XCode Project Files Explained (and object oriented programming concepts)
We’re taking a practical approach to learning iOS programming. This means lots of hands on work and practice!In order to benefit the most from these lessons, you should open XCode and try to follow along. This is part 3 of the lesson plan. Click here for the entire Learning Plan. Class Files At a glance,… View Article
Chris C • Sep 04 2019
Learning iOS Programming
“What is the best way to learn iOS programming?” I get this question a lot and in this article I want to tell you guys about what not to do and what I believe is the best way to learn iPhone programming. Let me first share with you guys how I failed the first time… View Article
Chris C • Sep 25 2019
How To Make iPhone Apps – MVC, One Pattern To Rule Them All
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… View Article
Chris C • Sep 29 2019
How To Make iPhone Apps – Control Structures, Loops and Collections
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… View Article
Chris C • Sep 23 2019
How To Make iPhone Apps – Object Oriented Programming and Classes
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… View Article
Chris C • Sep 05 2019
XCode: Using Storyboards and Xibs Versus Creating Views Programmatically
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… View Article
Chris C • Sep 05 2019
Tutorial: How To Use A Remote Configuration File For 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… View Article
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