Building a ToDo App Using Realm and Swift
After the big evolution in smart phones in the last years, a lot of tools have been developed to make life easier and simpler for developers to deliver the best performance and quality. To rock in the app store today is not an...
A Beginner’s Guide to NSDate in Swift
If I was ever asked what’s one of the most common stuff I do among all projects, then I would have answered that dealing with dates is definitely one of them. Undoubtably, there’s no developer out there who...
A First Look at Contacts Framework in iOS 9
As every iOS release, the version 9, which is officially here for just a few weeks, presents new features and improvements to existing technologies for both users and developers. As we’ve all witnessed, there’s a...
Beginner’s Guide: Using Social Framework and UIActivityViewController
So, you are just about to get finished with the new super-app of yours, or the one that your boss or a customer have asked you to make, and you realize that there’s one more important requirement, to make it capable of...
How To Create a Custom Search Bar Using UISearchController
Quite often it’s required from iOS applications to be capable of performing search in specific data that is displayed in a tableview. Undoubtably, most of developers have faced that situation, and the most usual approach to...
How to Integrate Google Sign In into Your iOS Apps
In my last tutorial we worked with the YouTube API, and through the demo application we managed to make requests to that specific Google API. Actually, we created an API key prior to any request, as that key was vital for every...
Creating a Slide Down Menu Using View Controller Transition
Navigation is an important part of every user interface. There are multiple ways to present a menu for your users to access the app’s features. The sidebar menu that we discussed in the earlier tutorial is an example. Slide...
Building a Video Search App with YouTube API
It’s a well-known fact that Google provides a big number of electronic products and services that can be used from the simplest end-user, to the most sophisticated one. But further than those who just use the Google...
How to Use iOS Charts API to Create Beautiful Charts in Swift
Using charts to display data can help users understand the information more easily than they would if it were presented in a table, especially when dealing with a lot of data. With charts, you can easily see patterns in the data...
A Beginner’s Guide to UIScrollView
In iOS, scroll views are used to view content that won’t fit entirely on the screen. Scroll views have two main purposes: To let users drag the area of the content they want to display To let users zoom in to or out of the...