Swift Articles
The (Dis)Advantages of Swift’s Flexibility
Over the past 3–4 years of learning and writing Swift code, I’ve had an interesting experience with the language. During this time, I have followed many online courses, started work on an iOS app that I plan to release on the App Store, and even created a prototype and internal tool for one of SEP’s […]
Swift iOS Tutorial: How to Customize UISegmentedControl
Customizing a UISegmentedControl If you have spent any time developing an iOS app, you have probably realized that customizing UI elements in Swift can be hard. There is either a checkbox that does what you want, or it takes hours of research and trial and error to get something just the way you want it. […]
Swift Animation Tutorial – SpriteKit, Xcode, and Swift
But wouldn’t it be cool if it did this?… I’ve thought these words to myself many times during my career in software development, specifically in mobile development. I want a product to do more than simply function properly; I want it to look good when it does it. That’s not to say that I’m looking […]
Helpful Mobile Development Libraries: Alamofire and SwiftyJSON
Since my first post about ZipGet, other Swift programmers have published some nifty libraries, namely Alamofire and SwiftyJSON. Alamofire comes from the makers of AFNetworking, a ubiquitous and handy networking library for iOS. Unlike AFNetworking, though, Alamofire is written completely in Swift. SwiftyJSON does not boast as illustrious a pedigree as Alamofire, but it greatly […]
If you build it, they will find zip codes
I’ve written an app in Swift. Put simply, the app helps you find zip codes. Enter a city or landmark, pan and zoom your way across the globe, or center on your current location to see a zip code. If a friend has ever given you his credit card to use at a gas station, […]
Checking into Swift
In the interest of learning Swift, I undertook one of the exercises catalogued on codekata.com—“Data Munging,” involving some simple file parsing. The first thing I learned? Regular expressions in Swift, which are really just Objective-C regular expressions at this stage, are remarkably unintuitive. I come from JavaScript, where regex literals and uncomplicated functionality make using […]
An Introduction to Swift Programming
Very few people who have delved into Apple’s programming domain develop an opinion that one could describe as neutral on the topic of Objective-C. Objective-C draws the ire of many, and the love of a small band. To understand the swift direction away from Objective-C that Apple now follows, one must first understand the nuances […]