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  • macOS Programming: Working with Table Views

    Check out this tutorial about how to implement Table Views on macOS platform using Swift.

  • RESTful API Tutorial: How to Upload Files to a Server

    Welcome to a new, hopefully exciting tutorial! In a previous post I showed to you the process of creating a custom class that manages web requests and RESTful APIs. Today, we will keep building on it, as I would like to focus on a specific use case: How to upload files to a server!

  • macOS Programming Tutorial: Working with Custom Views and Cocoa Controls

    Great apps have great user interfaces, and chances to build a great interface entirely inside the views of the view controllers in the storyboard file(s) are small. Usually, complex views are being designed in separate Xib (Interface Builder) files, and knowing how to load content from custom views is a mandatory skill that each macOS…

  • RESTful APIs Tutorial: Creating Your Own Lightweight REST Library in Swift

    Most applications nowadays communicate with servers to exchange data, and they do so by consuming RESTful APIs, also called RESTful web services. Using REST, applications can send requests to servers, and servers send responses as answers back to client apps. The whole communication is based on standard rules that REST architectural style defines. Obviously, developers…

  • macOS Programming Tutorial: Working with Alerts, Sheets and Modal Windows

    One of the basic, yet vital things a developer should know when creating macOS apps is how to present alerts, system panels or custom windows to their apps. Regardless of how small or big an app is, it will always be necessary to display an informational message to the user or ask for confirmation. Letting…

  • Using Google Cloud Translation API to Power Your App with Instant Translation

    One of the several services and APIs that developers can use from Google is the Cloud Translation API, which offers the ability to perform machine learning (ML) based translations of any string into any supported language. The list of supported languages is long and it’s getting longer over time. Google provides pre-trained models for translation,…

  • macOS Programming: Working with Dark Theme and Building a BMI Calculator

    Welcome to another macOS programming tutorial! In the previous post we made our introductory steps on macOS programming world as we discussed about fundamental concepts. In this tutorial, we are going to explore and unveil new interesting things that would be necessary to anyone who wants to make their way to macOS development.

  • Getting Started with macOS Programming

    Dear readers, let me welcome you and start by saying that this tutorial is the beginning of a new journey and new explorations, as it’s the first of a series of tutorials on a new topic: macOS programming!

  • Passing Data in iOS: Delegates, Notifications, and Closures

    Today, I’m going to discuss about an important and definitely interesting topic which focuses on a quite often overlooked concept. And, this question is commonly asked by beginners: How do you implement communication internally in apps and exchange messages properly among classes or other entities in Swift projects?

  • Add a sticky and stretchy top cell to your UITableView

    Learn how to create a sticky and stretchy top cell in your UITableView and make your UI look really cool!