Monthly Archives: June 2014

One month of Swift

    It’s been an amazing month since Apple announced Swift, at WWDC 2014. Since then we saw a lot of enthusiasm among developers all over the world, writing hundreds of blog posts and discussing on Reddit and Twitter. A bit over 100.000 people visited We ❤ Swift. We are really excited to see the massive number of people interested in learning Swift in just one…

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How to make a custom keyboard in iOS 8 using Swift

tl;dr I will go over the basics of a Keyboard Extension and then make a morse code keyboard using the new Application Extension API in iOS 8. It should take you about 20 minutes to go through all the steps. full code Overview A custom keyboard replaces the system keyboard for users who want capabilities such as a novel text input…

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Object Subscripting in Swift

What is Object Subscripting Subscripts are shortcuts for accessing elements from a collection, sequence or list. They are used to set and retrieve values by index without needing separate methods for setting and retrieval. A type can have multiple subscripts and subscripts can have more than one dimension. To access elements via subscripts write one or more values between square…

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Swift Classes – Part 2

Inheritance A class can inherit methods, properties, and other characteristics from another class. When one class inherits from another, the inheriting class is known as a subclass, and the class it inherits from is known as its superclass. Inheritance is a fundamental behavior that differentiates classes from other types in Swift. A simple example of inheritance: class AClass { func doSomething() {…

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Fractals in Xcode 6

  tl;dr You can edit shaders in Xcode 6 with live preview. This can be used to render Fractals. It should take you 10-20 minutes to go through all the steps in this tutorial. Full Code Xcode 6 added a powerfull new editor for SpriteKit scenes that let’s you visually design scenes for your games. You can expect tutorials on programming games with SpriteKit…

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How to make awesome UI components in iOS 8 using Swift and XCode 6

In Xcode 6 two new interface builder declaration attributes were introduced: IBInspectable and IBDesignable. IBInspectableexposes class properties in the interface builder Attribute Inspector, and IBDesignable updates the view in realtime! They are pure magic! I can’t wait to see what cool stuff you will make. tl;dr a short tutorial on how to use IBInspectable and IBDesignable with a video demo. It should take you around 10 minutes to go through all the steps. code on…

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Swifting Around

tl;dr I’m going to make a simple tableview with a custom cell type, use the new UIVisualEffectView from iOS 8 and then show off a bit of the power of Swift. It should take you about ~30 minutes to go through all the steps. Enjoy! full code if you are looking for a simpler tutorial for tableviews check out this one Create a new project Open Xcode 6, create…

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Swift Classes – Part 1

Creating a class To create a new class use the class keyword followed by the class name and a pair of braces. Inside the braces we can declare the class properties. class Point { var x = 0.0 // sets the default value of x to 0 var y = 0.0 // sets the default value of x to 0 } //…

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Higher Order Functions: Map, Filter, Reduce and more

Introducing Closures One of the great features of Swift is a clean new syntax for first class functions / closures that replaced the quite confusing block syntax. So hopefully we won’t need something like fuckingblocksyntax for Swift. Closures are self-contained blocks of functionality that can be passed around and used in your code. In this article we’ll focus on closures that are…

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