Our @richturton shares some tips for working with layout margins in iOS.

When I first started iOS, it was iOS 8 at that time, I had a bug that took my nearly a day to figure out. The issue was that the status…

Today I want to talk about UIView styling. The common approach when we want to customize the display of native UI controls (for instance UIButton or UILabel) is to create a subclass that overrides a bunch of properties. That works well most of the time, but…

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Learn how to take a disaster of nested stack views and untangle it into a great user interface.

Strings get a massive power up in Swift 5.0.

Enumerations provide clarity and intent. Some change and yet others remain stagnant, and now we program effectively for either case.

TL;DR Executive summary : // open the app permission in Settings app UIApplication.shared.open(URL(string: UIApplication.openSettingsURLString)!, options: [:], completionHandler: nil) From the previous Core Location tutorial, we need to prompt an authorization…

A detailed explanation of the required keyword. The keyword is often misunderstood and is used within classes, with protocols and more.

In this article we will be generating strong passwords with AutoFill and store them in the keychain so they can easily be used when logging in.

One really elegant aspect of Swift’s design is how it manages to hide much of its power behind much simpler programming constructs. Pattern matching is one source of that power, especially considering how it’s integrated into many different aspects of the…

What is a best-in-class iOS app? How are they built, and can we quantify what makes them great?

In iOS, the Responder Chain is the name given to an UIKit-generated linked list of UIResponder objects, and is the foundation for everything regarding events (like touch and motion) in iOS.

In this article you will learn how to dynamically size collection view cells based on their content.

Container view controllers are a way to combine the content from multiple ViewControllers into a single user interface. Child ViewControllers are one of the undervalued features of iOS SDK. We use it every day by use of UINavigationController or UITabBarController.…

Unit tests and memory leaks

Weak vs strong vs unowned – know the difference in closures

An easy way to add more structure to your classes by leveraging structs and enums