Mike Woelmer

Swift Tool Belt, Part 8: Extending UIButton with Background Color for State

This extension adds a bit of functionality that's missing from UIButton in Swift—adding the ability to set the background color for different button states.

Developer Tools

Swift Tool Belt, Part 7: Extending UIBarButtonItem

Set accessibility properties from Xcode's interface builder, and gain the ability to hide a bar button item—using an extension to UIBarButtonItem.

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Swift Tool Belt, Part 6: Extending UIFont

This extension for UIFont in Swift will convert your font to bold or italic. It's especially useful when you use scaled fonts but need a different look.

Developer Tools, iOS / OS X

Swift Tool Belt, Part 5: Adding a Gradient UIButton

A class derived from UIButton that will draw your button with a gradient background in Swift, using Xcode’s Interface Builder.

iOS / OS X

Swift Tool Belt, Part 4: Extending UITableViewController

An extension that provides a couple methods to resize the header and footer of a table view with UITableViewController in Swift.

iOS / OS X

Swift Tool Belt, Part 3: Extending UILabel

Here are a couple extensions to modify the edge insets (the extra padding all around the text) and rotate a label in Swift.

iOS / OS X

Swift Tool Belt, Part 2: Extending Date

Simple operations to add/remove time to a date can be several lines long. Many of my extensions help with the readability of the class.

iOS / OS X

Swift Tool Belt, Part 1: Adding a Border, Corner Radius, and Shadow to a UIView with Interface Builder

My Swift tool belt includes an extension that will add a border, corner radius, and a shadow to any UIView, UIButton, or UILabel with a live preview.

Developer Tools

How to Programmatically Remove a Cell From a Static UITableView

It is possible to remove a static cell at runtime from a UITableView. Using functions from the UITableViewDataSource to override the static table view.

iOS / OS X

A UIStackView Hack for Stacking Child Views Compactly

UIStackView is missing a distribution type that will stack its children close to each other and also size them based on their intrinsic content size.

Developer Tools

How to Remove Extra Separator Lines in a UITableView

When your UITableView does not have enough data, it will show empty cells with separators to fill out the screen. Here's how to get rid of them.

iOS / OS X

How to Use UISearchController to Add Search Your UITableViews

This is a simple tutorial on how to use the new UISearchController to add search capability to your UITableViews. Includes a demo.

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