iOS Presenting iOS View Controller as bottom-half Modal Presenting view controllers in iOS is a trivial thing. At least if you can do with the capability provided by iOS out of the box. But sometimes it makes sense
design 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 the one presenting the
design 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 can only think of
iOS 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 2015 videos on a
iphone 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 a daily basis. The worst impact is the go back edge pan that pops a view controller off
iOS 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 I experimented with handwritten notes to see if it could recognise my hideous scribbling. As far as I
iOS 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 field. I'm using Swift in my current project and when I wanted to make a sub class of
iOS 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 large as the iPhone 6 Plus resolution. I recently found myself using the background on a few screens
design 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 simulator that is acting out, and everything is good on the device. I was adding a background image
iOS 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 rid of the storyboard so that I could just setup the view inside the view controller. Share extensions,
iOS Is $19.99 the new $3.99 for iOS apps? A lot of data has recently been shared about revenue numbers of popular iOS apps. Overcast, Manual, Dash for Mac, Unread and Monument Valley to name the articles I've bumped into the most. Charles Perry wrote an excellent peice called The Shape of the
iOS A couple of iOS and Mac developer tools I can't live without I just updated my config on GitHub and added a few iOS and Mac developer (and design) tools that I can't live without. First of all there's PaintCode - the name is pretty much self explanitory. You importort a PSD file and it generates
iOS Awesome Tools when adding Push Notifications to iOS Apps One of the greatest strengths of the ecosystem of iOS is the vibrant community of developers and a wide range of open source libraries and tools. There's a ton of goodness for both Objective-C and Swift (already). One the other hand, one of the
iOS The Art of Timing "Ask to Buy" requests in iOS 8 One of the news in iOS 8 was family sharing, and more specific to this blog post the new purchase requests where kids can ask their parents for permission to
iphone iPhone as an API endpoint for SaaS Apps I have a couple of small iPhone apps that each solve a real pain for me. They do it in a simple manner, gets out of their way so I don't have to care. I'm comfortable with the apps handling my data, and I
iOS Setting up a new Mac for Web and iOS development I've probably done at least 500 re-installs of Windows during my time. I did start at an early age, but none the less a lot of hours has been spent just setting up a machine. I've learned a lot, of course. Not by re-installing
design Anti-aliasing issues in UITextField with Blur and Vibrancy Effect You probably know these days when you end up spending quite a lot of time fixing a small detail. At times you just feel like giving up and taking another
iphone The Story of no Storyboard in iOS Development When I create a new iOS project in Xcode, being iPhone/iPad only or universal, the first thing I do after creating the project is delete the Storyboard. And no,
design Smooth transition from Launch Image to View Controller in iOS The LaunchImage in iOS is a static image (or a screen) being shown at launch of the app and it dissappears in a couple of seconds, and then showing your
