Written by One of the cool things UIStackView can do for you is make it easy to dynamically update your app’s user interface while it’s running, with smooth animations and not a lot of code. My recent talk at iOSDevCamp DC covered some techniques. Natasha the Robot wrote a couple of great posts based on my talk, […]
As I mentioned in my last post, last week I did a talk at iOSDevCamp DC where I talked about UIStackView, a relatively new UIKit class that’s my new favorite thing in iOS development. I’m going to cover some of the more useful things UIStackView can do in posts here, which will fall more or […]
Last week I did a talk at iOSDevCamp DC, an annual event hosted by Luis de la Rosa. I talked about UIStackView, under the admittedly grandiose title of “Mastering UIStackView”. I’ve used stack views for a number of things recently, as I’ve come to realize they’re a lot more useful than a lot of introductory […]
WWDC is right around the corner! This post isn’t intended to be a prediction, as much as what I hope unfolds. As Betrand Serlet, a former Apple engineer discussed in this 90 second video clip, Apple often ships features iteratively. Projects start off private, only to be used internally, often times for a year or […]
Ignores commenting on another static vs. dynamic dispatch article because people won’t accept Swift is a hybrid not plain static. — Joe Fabisevich 🐶🐳™ (@mergesort) May 24, 2016 Guess that didn’t last long. There’s a conversation happening in the iOS community at the moment, static vs. dynamic programming. On one side we have many people […]
At the original iPhone announcement, we saw Steve Jobs on stage with Google’s then CEO Eric Schmidt, showing off Google’s amazing Maps. Built for the iPhone, it was something we’d never seen before. Apple’s incredible phone and revolutionary software combined with Google’s terrific web services and data coming together for one amazing product. With regards […]
Just use NSDate, right? The obvious choice for handling dates in iOS and OS X apps is NSDate. It’s obvious, right? It’s got “date” right in its name, doesn’t it? And that’s the thing about NSDate. It’s mis-named. It almost says so right in the docs: NSDate objects encapsulate a single point in time, independent […]
I wrote a post a few months ago about sharing data between iOS apps and app extensions in which I recommended using NSFileCoordinator and NSFilePresenter. But I had to update the post to remove that portion when some helpful people pointed me to Apple Tech Note 2408, which read in part: When you create a […]
I pushed the magic button to get a Shyp person here to send out a couple packages I have been procrastinating sending for weeks. After that was settled, I dialed up Time Warner Cable, to get my modem swapped out, a process I’ve been actively trying to get done for weeks. After a combination of […]
A large part of the Swift Standard Library is concerned with Generators, Sequences and Collections and functions that operate on them, so it’s pretty important to have a good understanding of them. I was going to write a blog post about how to create and use Swift generators and sequences. But while I was trying […]