How to convert 3D models to USDZ files using Apple's Reality Converter
Earlier this year, Apple released the tool any ARKit enthusiast has been waiting for: Reality Converter. Keep in mind this is a Beta Release as of the moment of this article. You can convert common 3D files like .gltf, .obj, .fbx using the Reality Convert...
Building a COVID-19 Tracing app in a week
We wanted to create a prototype app to help people to find out if they contacted anybody infected by the COVID-19 disease. It will use wireless technologies searching near by and notify users. In this post we're going to talk about the thoughts behind thi...
Combine networking with a hint of SwiftUI
In this blogpost we will examine what Combine is and how it can be used. Combine is a huge topic, and obviously, we will not cover everything here. So, continue reading to learn how we can use Combine to make network requests in a very general and efficie...
Animated Transitions in ViewController - Part 1
The hunger for magnificent design, animations and transitions is huge and nowadays designers are pushing developers to create beautiful views with lots of animations and smooth transitions. Based on this, I will present some basic concepts of transitions ...
Compositional Layout Basics
Even though this year at WWDC Apple introduced the new SwiftUI framework, which will redefine the way we create our app UI's from iOS 13, there were as well presented some advances in UIKit, precisely, in the way we can build an UICollectionView through t...
Supplementary Items and Decorations
The previous part of this series covered the ground base for implementing a Compositional Layout. Now that we are comfortable with the base implementation, this part of the series will focus on the Supplementary Items and Decorations that we can use in a ...
Building the App Store using Compositional Layout
In the first 2 parts of this series we learned the basics for implementing a [Compositional Layout]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2020-01-10-Compositional-Layout-Part1 %}) and how to add Supplementary Items and Decorations. With this knowledge in hand we ...
How to make an augmented reality decorating experience app with AR Quick Look
AR Quick Look provides a very powerful augmented reality experience with user interactions like moving/scaling the object, people occlusion and sharing of the model supported “out of the box”. Now, as easy as Apple makes it for us, from my experience, a b...
iOS 2019 Retrospective
Apple recently posted their annual announcement that App Store is shutting down over the holidays. At the same time Stack Overflow has announced that Winter Bash 2019 is here, giving you a chance to add a funny hat to your Stack Overflow profile because w...
