swift Archives

iOS / OS X

Working with iOS Image Filters in Swift

To my delight, most of the iOS image processing libraries are simple to use. Here's a walkthrough to get you started with iOS image filters in Swift.

Developer Tools

Sharing Web Data with iOS Using WKWebView

How we found an easy way to pass a user's API credentials from a web page to our iOS application to support single-account, multiple-login using WKWebView.

Swift

Using Swift Enums for Hard-Coded Strings

How to use new features in Swift enums to manage hard-coded strings in your application.

Swift

Testing with Swift – Approaches & Useful Libraries

How we've approached testing different types of Swift code, and some useful testing libraries we've used.

Swift

Go Home Swift Compiler, You’re Drunk

Be aware of Swift's inability to efficiently parse and compile simple Dictionary/Array literals. The compilation time grows exponentially with each line.

Developer Tools

10 Super Cool Alcatraz Xcode Plugins

Xcode comes with many great features out of the box, but is lacking these 10 super cool abilities, available through Alcatraz.

Swift

Interacting with iBeacons in Swift

Overview of the iBeacon location protocol, its iOS programming model, and how to implement iBeacons in Swift

Objective-C, Swift

Working with Objective-C and Swift on the Same Project

Converting classes from Swift to Objective-C, and Objective-C to Swift.

Developer Tools

Specifying the Destination of an Unwind Segue Programmatically

How to programmatically determine the destination of an iOS Unwind Segue by overriding canPerformUnwindSegueAction.

iOS / OS X

Evaluating Expressions in iOS with Objective-C and Swift

Evaluating string expressions in iOS with the NSExpression and NSPredicate classes. Examples given in both Objective-C and Swift.

Developer Tools

Custom Animation for an Unwind Segue

What do you do if you want a custom animation for your unwind segue in Xcode?

Growing as Makers

What I Learned at CocoaConf Atlanta

I recently attended the Atlanta CocoaConf, a touring conference that focuses on Apple technologies (iOS and OS X).