ios 8
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Developing iBeacons Apps with Swift
Since the introduction of iBeacons with iOS 7 by Apple, a lot of things have been said and written about. iBeacon technology consist of a revolutionary way to keep track of the position of a device indoors and use location services, similarly to the GPS outdoors, and it’s based on the signal transmitted through Bluetooth…
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Building a Text to Speech App Using AVSpeechSynthesizer
iOS is an operating system with many possibilities, allowing to create from really simple to super-advanced applications. There are times where applications have to be multi-featured, providing elegant solutions that exceed the limits of the common places, and lead to a superb user experience. Also, there are numerous technologies one could exploit, and in this…
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Creating Interactive Local Notifications in iOS 8
Notifications are the way of an application to communicate with users, especially when it’s not running in the foreground. A notification, as its name implies, is used to *notify* a user either about an event, or just to remind something important. In fact, notifications are extremely useful in reminding applications, but they’re also quite handy…
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Working with iOS 8 Handoff Part 2: Using Continuation Streams
In my last tutorial we met for first time the Handoff capability that was introduced in iOS 8.0. With it, an activity that is started in one iOS device can be continued to another from the point that was left off. Also, an activity can be continued on a Mac too, as long as the…
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Working with Handoff in iOS 8
I am going to start this tutorial with the following wonderful scenario: Imagine that you are working with an application in your Mac, and then you decide to continue in your iPad while lying on your couch in your living room. After a while, you’re leaving home, but you keep working on the same application…
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Building an RSS Reader Using UISplitViewController and UIPopoverViewController
Just a few weeks ago Apple introduced the new iPhone devices, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. As we all saw, the screen sizes are bigger than all the older iPhone screens, meaning that any new applications must be build in that way so they work on all devices. Even more, if we consider…
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Working with Touch ID API in iOS 8 SDK
With every major version release of iOS, Apple ships along a great number of new technologies and frameworks. iOS 8 is going to be released officially pretty soon, and new great stuff awaits both users and developers. This version of iOS brings quite exciting new things, and among them, don’t forget the new programming language…
