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Adding a Gradient Background to UINavigationBar on iOS

How to add a gradient background to your UINavigationBar that works in portrait and landscape orientation. I thought it would be easy, but when I originally rotated my device to la

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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.

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.NET Core, OSX, libcurl, and OpenSSL

This is the story of an OSX-specific issue with .NET Core, what we learned, and how to resolve it.

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Understanding UIAppearance Container Hierarchies

The mechanics for UIAppearance proxies for views contained in other views does not work as you may expect coming from CSS. Here's how it's different.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

iOS / OS X

UIStackView Tricks: Proportional Custom UIViews with ‘Fill Proportionally’

How to use the Fill Proportionally option with any UIStackView custom view while also having fine-grained control over the proportions themselves.

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Achieve Resolution Independence in Your iOS App Using SVGs

Devices of varying sizes lets users to choose what is right for them, but supporting all those combinations of resolution and pixel density can be a hassle.

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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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