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Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Part 6 – Interaction with multiple views

This article is part of the create iOS8 Applications with Swift tutorial series, here are the other published articles: Slimming down our API Controller code First off, our original plan was to show...

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Developing iOS8 Apps Using Swift – Part 7 – Animations, Audio, and Custom...

In the previous iOS8 Swift Tutorials we went over some basics of the iOS8 programming language: Swift, and set up a simple example project that creates a Table View and a puts some API results from...

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Asynchronous Message Passing With Actors in Objective-C

Although we are all in love with Objective-C, the power of a language itself is given by its inner features. Languages like Ada have a built-in concurrency model, while Objective-C needs external...

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Getting started with NSNotificationCenter

Have you ever wanted to alert other classes of your app of some event from another one? Sure, you could have your Objective-C class poll the other one and keep asking if something has changed, but that...

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How to send emails in your iOS Application using: MFMailComposeViewController

Have you wanted to send an e-mail from your app and pre-populate the fields like the recipient, subject, or body text? In this How to send emails from your ios application tutorial I will show you how....

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Quick tip: dispatch_once singleton model in Swift

From my short experience with iOS8 Swift there are three approaches to implement the Singleton pattern that support lazy initialisation and thread safety. Global constant Nested struct dispatch_once...

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Base64 Decoding in iOS 7 Objective-C and iOS8 Swift

Here is a very quick tip that about Base64 decoding for iOS Applications and for Objective-C iOS7+, incl iOS8 Swift. Knowing this quick reference has saved my bacon so many times, it might be a good...

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How to: Detect screenshots in Objective-C and Swift like SnapChat

Have you got the Snapchat App? Even taken a screenshot of the image because you wanted to keep it forever? Ever wondered how to do that in your own app? Before iOS 7, detecting screenshots in your...

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Quick Tip: Scrolling animation – UIScrollView

So I wanted an animated UIScrollView which iterated around a collection of UIViews that had been programmatically added to my UIScrollView. Problem I ran into was starting the animation over after the...

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Quick tip: Implementing UIAlertView in Swift

In Swift and iOS 8 SDK you can present an alert view as shown in the code below : 1234var alert = UIAlertController(title: “Alert Title", message: "Message", preferredStyle:...

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Connect your Swift Application to Parse.com

Parse.com is an absolutely fantastic option for the individual Swift iOS developer who wants to have the full power of a server backend powering their app without all the difficulties of setting one...

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Swift: Create user sign up based app with Parse.com using PFUser

So, you want to be able to let people sign up to your app right? and you’re using Parse.com? Awesome. They have thought of this and created a fantastic specialised user class: PFUser. This tutorial...

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Swift: Create a login app with Parse.com PFUser & Keychain Locksmith

This tutorial optimising the specialised Parse.com class PFuser to verify login credentials and uses an awesome library called Locksmith Keychain that stores information in the iOS Keychain to remember...

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Swift: How to send a POST Request to a PHP Script

This tutorial will show you how to send a POST request in Swift to a PHP script on your server. There are many fantastic advantages to connecting your Swift application to a PHP Web Service. It opens...

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Swift NSTimer Tutorial – Lets create a counter application

In this Swift tutorial we are going to create a basic counter application that utilises the NSTimer class. This is a great introduction to using NSTimer with Swift. Jump to: What is NSTimer? Set up...

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Swift: Tuples an introduction

A Tuple in Swift is a neat way to store multiple values in a single value. You will probably come across tuples in a return function or class. So a tuple is basically a way to represent a collection of...

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Swift: Type Annotations

Type Annotations in Swift are a really useful way to make sure that the specified value matched that of the expected value. This is extremely useful when using functions and declaring your variables....

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How to create an Objective-C Bridging header

So you want to use an Objective-C Library or SDK in your Swift application eh? Well do not fret. This quick tutorial will show You how you can create an Objective-C Bridging Header in your Swift...

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