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Checkpoint 1 of Swift for Complete Beginners asks you to create an Xcode playground able to convert any value of Celsius into Fahrenheit, then print the result. Let’s solve that now…
In this second tutorial on generics, we’re going to explore creating several different generic types, look at extending generics, and look at how we can apply our generics knowledge to create property wrappers.
Apple’s NotificationCenter
class implements the observer pattern from the Gang of Four book on design patterns, allowing any number of objects be notified when a specific event happens. But to answer this question well, you need to go beyond theory and focus on when it’s actually used.
This challenge asks you to make decorative decorations, make the rows in iExpense read more smoothly with VoiceOver, then conduct your own review of Moonshot and fix it up. Let’s tackle it now…
In this stream we'll build an app I originally designed for my kids, to help them build confidence in mathematics. Along the way we'll meet a couple of great iOS 17 APIs, explore styling in SwiftUI, and more!
In this article we’re going to build part of a SwiftUI app that helps users find designers for work. The goal here isn’t to build a full app, but instead to explore lesser-known SwiftUI features in a practical way.
Now that we’ve designed a basic awards UI, we can bring it to life with some Core Data queries to determine which awards have actually been earned.
In this article we’re going to build a tool that designs particle systems for SwiftUI apps, all built on top of the TimelineView
and Canvas
that were added in SwiftUI. I think you’ll really be amazed how fast this comes together!
The A* algorithm for path finding is not the perfect way to find an optimal route between two nodes in a graph, but it is either the best or darned close most of the time and that makes it a fantastic one to learn for both games and apps alike.
UPDATED: Now that we have our basic data model configured and coded, we can put it to use by building a simple user interface to help make sure our data is in place and working correctly.
In this part we’ll be looking at upgrades to SwiftUI’s List
view that let us expand and collapse rows, then try out the iPadOS sidebar style.
Crashes are inevitable, at least when you’re in development, so learning how to find the source of a problem and getting it resolved is a key skill for any developer.
In this stream we’re going to build an app I wrote for the very first version of Hacking with Swift, back in 2014. Obviously we’re bringing it way up to date with Swift and SwiftUI, but you’ll also get some great, reusable assets you can use in other word games.
UPDATED: In this article we’re going to make Spotlight store our app’s data, meaning that the user can search for issues right from their iOS Home Screen. If you intend to follow the Widget or shortcut sections of this course later on, you should follow this article first.
Large parts of Apple’s Weather app is about bringing little sparks of joy to an otherwise very serious, fact-driven experience, but none more so than the random little meteors that fly by on starry nights. They move so fast so you might be tempted to skip over them, but I think it’s definitely worth exploring and having some fun with!
UPDATED: Code is designed to be read far more often than it is written, and one of the simplest ways of making code easier to read is to make it uniform – to make sure your code follows a simple style, so your brain can focus less on spacing and naming and more on understanding how the code actually works.
Now that our project is all ready for expansion, our first step will be to let users upload projects to iCloud so later on other users can view them and even comment on them. We’ll approach this in a simple way at first, but we’ll come back for improvements later.
Although Apple has done a great deal of work to bring these two powerhouse frameworks closer together, they still fundamentally work in entirely different ways, and providing a good comparison might take more thought than you expect.
In this article we’re going to build two simple SwiftUI projects back to back, as part of a new initiative to create easily accessible sample projects for learners.
There are three challenges for WeSplit, including adding section headers and showing a grand total. Let’s solve them now…
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