App accelerators
The competition in the mobile app industry gets bigger and bigger so we have to deliver better and better apps to keep the users hooked. Extra niceness goes a long way in user retention and introducing app accelerators is a great example because it’s not ...
Custom Gesture Recognizers
If you want to implement a gesture that is not already provided by Apple you can customise your own. However, they recommend using the standard gestures because users are already familiar with them, so take some time to consider if a custom gesture is the...
UIGestures
Gestures are the magic behind those accelerators that can make your app more user friendly. We will now show a few examples on how to implement them in your code. Swipe Gestures You can have many accelerators build with the swipe gesture as it is discrete...
Vapor code generation with Sourcery
Swift is a relatively new language in the server realm that brings a lot of nice changes, such as type safety and compilation. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows. Swift's poor metaprogramming can introduce a huge amount of boilerplate into Swift proje...
How we debug with Charles
For those who don't know Charles, Charles is an HTTP proxy and monitor that enables testers and developers to view all HTTP and HTTPS traffic between the device and the internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers. Charles is an incred...
Adding Peek and Pop to your View Controllers
With iOS 9, new iPhone models add a third dimension to the user interface, called force touch, or more commonly 3D Touch. A user can now press your Home screen icon to immediately access functionality provided by your app. Within your app, a user can now ...
Challenges when making Today Widgets
Apple introduced the Today extension in iOS 9, more commonly called widgets. Apple describes widgets like so: Widgets give users quick access to information that’s important right now. For example, users open the Today view to check current stock prices o...
Searchable Items
Motivation App search has been here since iOS9. This feature seems to go largely unused. Maybe this is because both developers and people selling features have forgotten it exists. This is a quick guide for less technical people, and a semi quick guide fo...
Preparing for iPhone X
iPhone X was announced on September 12, 2017, and with that came a lot of questions about how apps will look and behave with this new phone. We as iOS developers are now accustomed to supporting a variety of screen sizes, but there are still some new chal...
