iOS

A Complete Guide to In-App Purchases for iOS Development

A step-by-step guide on how to create in-app purchase records on App Store, and on how to prepare your app programmatically so it can offer IAPs to users!
Creating Reusable Libraries with CocoaPods and GitHub

Welcome back! In the previous tutorial, you learned how to use the Network Framework to detect and monitor the network status. The framework seems to be working fine through the NetStatus class, so let’s go one step further and let’s create our own small, open-source framework that will be based on the NetStatus class. In…
Network Framework in iOS: How to Monitor Network Status Changes

Read about how to monitor for network status changes in iOS and macOS projects 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!
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…
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,…
Introduction to SnapKit: Make Auto Layout Easy for iOS App Development

Create Auto Layout constraints programmatically and above all easily using SnapKit; A great tool for working fast with constraints in Swift.
Techniques in Loading View Controllers and Passing Values Between Them – Part 1

Most iOS apps that show multiple content, also contain multiple view controllers. If your app is not based on a navigation controller or a tab bar controller, but it’s a single view based application, then loading and presenting the various view controllers to the user it’s a task that has to be done manually. Generally speaking,…
A Beginner’s Guide to Bezier Paths and Shape Layers

Create great eye-catching user interface for your apps by reading how to implement UIBezierPaths and shape layers. Learn all you need so you can move your UI development to the next level.
Using JavaScript in Swift Projects: Building a Markdown to HTML Editor

Learn about JavaScriptCore framework in iOS and see how Swift and JavaScript can be tied together. Embed JavaScript code in iOS projects and find out how simple is to do magical things with just a few actions.