How to Make a Line Drawing Game with Sprite Kit and Swift - Ray Wenderlich
Learn how to make a Line Drawing Game like Flight Control with Sprite Kit and Swift!
iOS 8 Demo: Interactive Playgrounds and Functional Programming | Big Nerd Ranch
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RateMyApp (Swift) for iOS - Cocoa Controls
RateMyApp is a class to provide gentle reminders for app users to rate your app, written completely in swift
Open Source Swift Library Providing Easy Background Image Downloading And Caching
I've mentioned a few objective-c libraries providing easy background image downloading and caching, most recently Heneke. Here's an interesting library created in Swift that provides background ima...
Swift Extensions Part 2 — Nested Types, Subscripts, Protocols
Exploring how to code in Objective-C and Swift
Distributing CoreData Entities Over a Network with Swift - Dariusz Rybicki
NetworkObjects is a distributed object graph inspired by Apple’s WebObjects. This framework compiles for OS X and iOS and serves as the foundation for building powerful Swift servers as well as serving as a cross-platform alternative to Cocoa’s Distributed Objects.
How to Make a Waiting Game Like Farmville with Sprite Kit and Swift - Ray Wenderlich
Learn how to make a waiting game like Farmville using Swift in this Sprite Kit tutorial!
Sprite Kit Swift Tutorial for Beginners - Ray Wenderlich
Learn how to make a simple 2D iOS game in this Sprite Kit Swift Tutorial for Beginners!
MapManager (Swift) for iOS - Cocoa Controls
Map manager is a MapKit wrapper to provide route direction drawing written entirely in Swift
1) Closure support
2) Get directions using Apple service
3) Get directions using Google service
iOS8 Day-by-Day :: Day 31 :: Using Touch ID to Secure the Keychain
The iPhone 5s introduced the world to Touch ID - allowing users to unlock their phones without the tedium of typing their passcode in. iOS 7 limited the use of Touch ID to unlocking the phone and purchases against your Apple ID, but developers wanted more. iOS 8 delivers - allowing you to secure keychain items so that the user has to use Touch ID in order to decrypt them. Find out how in today's iOS8 Day-by-Day.
Text Kit Tutorial in Swift - Ray Wenderlich
Learn how to easily layout your text in iOS 8 using Swift in this Text Kit tutorial!
An Open Source Swift Based Websockets Client Library
Some time ago I mentioned the objective-c based SocketRocket Websockets client libary. Here's an open source library Swift based websocket client library called StarScream from Dalton Cherry. StarS...
Swift Extensions Part 1 — Computed Properties and Initializers
Exploring how to code in Objective-C and Swift
VMXMLParser (Swift) for iOS - Cocoa Controls
VMXMLParser is a NSXMLParser wrapper in Swift
Features:
1) Closure based
2) Response as array of dictionaries
3) Unicode support
4) Just two lines and you are done :)
SAMPLE CODE:
DTIToastCenter (Swift) for iOS - Cocoa Controls
A toast center for displaying quick toast to the user. Written in swift.
Designated Initializers and Convenience Initializers in Swift
Does that look a bit familiar? If you’ve been following the blog for a while it should, that is the initializer for our Message class used in the previous articles Classes In Swift — An Introduction and Using a Nested Type in Swift. That syntax is to create a designated initializer. Our Message class only had one initializer, so it had to be the designated one. To create a designated initializer, it is just the init keyword, with the parameters afterwards, and then the code inside the curly braces.
Building an RSS Reader in Swift Using UISplitViewController
In this programming tutorial, we will build a RSS reader from scratch in Swift. You'll learn how to use UISplitViewController and UIPopoverController.
Tutorial: Creating Great Looking Button Transitions With Core Graphics And Swift
Back in February I mentioned an interesting library providing navigation bar buttons with slick animations between them. Here's a nice tutorial showing how to create a slick transition between two ...
Beginning Adaptive Layout Tutorial - Ray Wenderlich
To start, open Main.storyboard and drag an Image View from the Object Library onto the view controller canvas. In the Size Inspector, set the X position to 150 and the Y position to 20. Set the Width to 300 and the Height to 265.
Introduction to Realm.io - Ray Wenderlich
Realm introduced itself as a persistence solution designed specifically for mobile applications. It’s extremely simple to integrate to a project, and the most common functions (such as querying the database) are a single line of code!
Example: A Swift Based Photo Editing Extension Created With The iOS 8 Photos Framework
Last week I mentioned a nice set of source code examples demonstrating usage of many new iOS 8 features. Here's a nice source code example submitted by Dariusz Ryblicki of a photo editing extension...
How To Use UIScrollView to Scroll and Zoom Content in Swift - Ray Wenderlich
Learn how to use UIScrollView to present content larger than a screen - from beginner to advanced.
iOS8 Day-by-Day :: Day 29 :: Safari Action Extension
Extensions are a huge addition to iOS in iOS8, allowing developers unprecedented access to areas of OS outside of their own app's sandbox. So far this blog series has covered photos, sharing and today extensions, and today turns its attention to the action extension. This includes taking a look at how you can integrate your Swift code with a JavaScript preprocessor to interact with the content of a web page.