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...
Higher order functions in Swift
Higher order functions in Swift are extremely powerful tools to have in your developer toolkit, the only issue is that it might take some time to get comfortable with them. Before we get started, let’s have a look at some important terms to know in relati...
ARKit 3 brings more power to Apple's Augmented Reality
We can already see Apple having a big lead when it comes to augmented reality and the new version of ARKit will push them even further. There are amazing opportunities for AR as a mass market E-commerce solution and we can already see big companies taking...
Add a Swift Package to Your iOS Application
With the release of Swift 3.0, Apple introduced the Swift Package Manager, a tool for managing the distribution of Swift code. It is integrated with the Swift build system to automate the process of downloading, compiling, and linking dependencies. Though...
Create Your Own Swift Package
In Part 1, Add a Swift Package to Your iOS Application, of this Swift Package Manager series we saw how you can add an already existing package to your application. Now, you might be wondering, "How can I create my own package?" The answer is simpler than...