WWDC20
Every year Apple's WWDC event is a highlight in the Apple developer community, and this year was no different. Because of COVID-19 the event had to take on a new form and move out of Cupertino and into the virtual world. The week was kicked off with the h...
A first look at Apple's new Augmented Reality features
Apple's WWDC event is greatly anticipated in the Apple developers community every year. When it comes to the augmented reality world, we only got a quick glimpse of what is new in yesterday's keynotes. Here is an overview of what we know so far, with more...
LLDB summary
LLDB，Low Level Debugger, is a lightweight, high-performance debugger that is built into Xcode by default. Being able to use it well will make our development more efficient with less effort. We often use LLDB's po / breakpoint in development, you can get ...
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 ...