Adding more depth to modal View Controller Transitions in iOS
The default modal view controller transition in iOS is something that I've become a little annoyed of. If the view controllers (the one being presented, and »
Prototyping your iPhone app idea
You have an idea for an iPhone app. You believe it's great. You can think of so many ways it will be successful. In fact, you »
iOS 9 news - Notes from following WWDC 2015 remotely
I'm not at WWDC 2015. Unfortunately! But this year Apple has made it a much better experience to follow along without a ticket. They release WWDC »
Home Button gestures on iPhone
Since the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the increased screen size has caused new issues for single hand navigation around the OS that I notice on »
Text Recognition in iOS with Tesseract OCR
OCR is an old technology. I remember from my early days with my own computer that I bought a handheld scanner that featured OCR capabilities, and »
Easily display different formats of your logo in Swift
I constantly make very small UI sub classes in my iOS apps to make it easy to display a certain type of label, button or text »
A Vibrant Background Image View in Swift
A while back I wrote about how you could make the transition from Launch Image to root view controller look smooth with a background image as »
A Weird Case of UIVibrancyEffect on iPhone 6 vs. iOS Simulator
I've often seen a couple of differences between how a real iPhone device and the iOS simulator renders some advanced stuff. But it's often the iOS »
Allowing an Idea to go Out of Control
By natural instinct, most people and organizations tend to get defensive and protect their ideas and products when they start to go beyond their control. I'm »
Present iOS 8 Share Extension as Modal View
I was having a little fun creating a share extension for iOS 8 in Swift. One problem I quickly stumpled upon was the need to get »