macOS Programming Tutorial: Working with Custom Views and Cocoa Controls
Great apps have great user interfaces, and chances to build a great interface entirely inside the views of the view controllers in the storyboard file(s) are small. Usually, complex views are being designed in separate Xib...
RESTful APIs Tutorial: Creating Your Own Lightweight REST Library in Swift
Most applications nowadays communicate with servers to exchange data, and they do so by consuming RESTful APIs, also called RESTful web services. Using REST, applications can send requests to servers, and servers send responses...
macOS Programming Tutorial: Working with Alerts, Sheets and Modal Windows
One of the basic, yet vital things a developer should know when creating macOS apps is how to present alerts, system panels or custom windows to their apps. Regardless of how small or big an app is, it will always be necessary to...
Using Google Cloud Translation API to Power Your App with Instant Translation
One of the several services and APIs that developers can use from Google is the Cloud Translation API, which offers the ability to perform machine learning (ML) based translations of any string into any supported language. The...
macOS Programming: Working with Dark Theme and Building a BMI Calculator
Welcome to another macOS programming tutorial! In the previous post we made our introductory steps on macOS programming world as we discussed about fundamental concepts. In this tutorial, we are going to explore and unveil new...
Getting Started with macOS Programming
Dear readers, let me welcome you and start by saying that this tutorial is the beginning of a new journey and new explorations, as it’s the first of a series of tutorials on a new topic: macOS programming! Developing for...
Passing Data in iOS: Delegates, Notifications, and Closures
Long time no see dear readers and Appcoda fans! It’s been a long time since my last post here at Appcoda, and I am really glad to be back! Today, I’m going to discuss about an important and definitely interesting...
Introduction to SnapKit: Make Auto Layout Easy for iOS App Development
Dear readers, it’s been a long time since my last post, so I’m happy to come back with a new tutorial, which I truly believe you’ll find quite interesting. Today I’d like to tell you about a third-party...
A Beginner’s Guide to Bezier Paths and Shape Layers
The process of developing apps includes amongst other things the creation of the user interface (UI) and all those simple or complicated views that appear on screen. There are different ways and different approaches to draw a...
Using JavaScript in Swift Projects: Building a Markdown to HTML Editor
For a long time I wanted to write a post about how Swift and JavaScript can be tied together, and lead eventually to more powerful and rich-featured apps. Being able to embed JavaScript code in iOS projects is not something that...