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...
An overview of watchOS complications
Complications are bits of watchOS application that can be put on the user's watch face and offer quick information, simply by looking at his/her Apple Watch, without opening the accompanying watchOS/iOS app. The Apple Watch ships with some default complic...
SwiftGen
SwiftGen is a tool to auto-generate Swift code for resources of your projects, to make them type-safe. You can organize and manage your resources by using auto-generated swift code. You can use SwiftGen for assets, colors, core data, fonts, interface buil...
Using USDZ for a better AR experience
ARKit 3.0 was officially released together with iOS 13.0 and it includes a lot of augmented reality goodies, such as people occlusion and motion capture. You can read about all the new features [here]({% if site.baseurl %} {% if site.baseurl %}{{ site.bas...
Sharing code between iOS and Vapor
Code reusability has always been one of the ultimate goals for us developers. Building your backend with Vapor not only gives you highly scalable apps with shallow memory footprint, but also the potential to share some of your backend code with your iOS a...
Join the dark side and implement Dark Mode in iOS
WWDC this year brought to light a lot of amazing features Apple has been working on lately. One of these features, and maybe one of the most expected, was Dark Mode support. As Apple mentioned in their keynote, Dark Mode is easy to implement and will brin...