2019 Plans Q1
The beginning of the year is a time to reflect and plan for your future to be successful in the new year. At the Electronic Armory, I have a lot planned for this year so scroll down to see our … Continued
Geofencing – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 11
Determine when your user’s device goes in and out of particular area defined by a geofence. Geofences are geographic boundaries that you can define, such as a city boundary, an area around a home, work, school or other place of … Continued
GPS Device Location – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 10
In this iOS Swift 4 tutorial, we’ll show you how to get the user’s device location and get updates to that location. We’ll put it in a for loop in case multiple locations get reported at once. You can get … Continued
WebKit webview browser – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 09
In this Swift 4 tutorial, we’ll use Apple’s webkit webview (wkwebview) to display a webpage and navigate using a textfield for entering a URL and back and forward buttons by using the navigation delegate. Get the source code: https://github.com/ElectronicArmory/tutorial-ios-webview … Continued
Web Services with Alamofire – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 08
In this iOS programming tutorial, we’ll use the Alamofire framework to download Bitcoin prices from a publicly available API that responds with JSON data and we’ll parse that JSON object using the Dictionary class in Swift to extract values out … Continued
Table View Controllers – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 07
In this iOS development tutorial, we’ll cover UITableViewControllers and how to delete rows from them by using the data source and delegate functions to customize our tableview. This video is part of a free course on developing iOS apps … Continued
Passing Data Between View Controllers – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 06
In this Swift 4 tutorial, we’ll show you how to pass data between view controllers using a third object that will hold all of our data. We’ll pass data to this third object to hold onto and when the first … Continued
Intro to Xcode – iOS Development with Swift 4 – 05
In this iOS development tutorial, using Swift 4, we cover Xcode 9 and we build our first simple iOS app. We’ll cover the interface and some tips on Xcode. So if you’re looking to learn iOS development, hopefully you’ll find … Continued
Swift 4 Classes – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 04
In this iOS programming tutorial, we’ll cover Swift 4 classes, how to create them and how to use them. Classes allow us to implement object oriented programming (OOP) and keep code clean and organized. We’ll continue to explore classes as … Continued
Swift Functions – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 03
In this iOS development tutorial, we’ll cover functions in Swift 4. We’ll show you how to create and call functions for code reuse, add parameters, name those parameters or have unnamed parameters that Swift allows us to do. We’ll debug, … Continued
Intro to Swift 4 – iOS Development in Swift 4 – 02
This intro to Swift 4 tutorial, using Xcode 9 for iOS, is for both beginners and programmers already familiar with the newest version from Apple. We’ll cover iOS development and Xcode in this series, but for this video we play … Continued
Course Introduction – iOS Development with Swift 4 – 01
Introducing a free course on developing iOS apps with Swift 4. This course will walk you through the step-by-step features of iOS, such as Swift 4 basics and more advanced topics, Map Kit, Location Services, Table Views and more. Make … Continued
Full Stack App from Scratch – iOS and SQL Commands – 06
In this video, we’ll be using our JHipster full stack application that we’ve been developing in previous videos to back an iOS mobile app’s data. Most mobile apps need some kind of shared data store that lives on the internet … Continued
Faster Coding with Code Snippets – Use and Creation
Ever find yourself reusing code or algorithms between projects? Put it in a code snippet and gain easy access to it. Also, check out Apple’s built in code snippets for even faster coding.
Build an iOS app from Scratch – Core Data, MapView, Location and TableView
This is a full tutorial on building an iOS app from scratch with synchronized views using Core Data. We’ll display that synchronized data in a UIMapView, UITableView and synch it with NotificationCenter. This is a long one, but let me … Continued
iOS Notification Center in Swift 3
Formerly known as NSNotificationCenter, the NotificationCenter is a powerful mechanism for sending out broadcasts of notifications within an application. If you haven’t heard of Notification Center, you’re missing out! It’s a great way to help make your larger application easier … Continued
Building a Core Data iOS app with Swift 3
Implementing Core Data with Swift 3, Apple’s database implementation for iOS 10. In this video, we’ll explain what and how Core Data works, the terms that the framework uses and finally how to use it with a real example. Let … Continued
Building a web browser in iOS and Swift 3 with UIWebView
In this video tutorial, we’re going to implement a UIWebView in iOS 10 using Swift 3. I’ll show you how to create a URL instance, put that instance in a URLRequest object and then load the request into your view. … Continued
UITableViewController in Swift 3 – Tutorial
In this Swift 3 tutorial, we’ll dive into the use of the UITableViewController to show a list of data in our iOS app. UITableViewController is an easy class to use and you only need to know a few things to … Continued
Swift 3 – Getting User’s Location in iOS
In this video tutorial, we’ll get the user’s location in Swift 3 on iOS 10. There are a few steps in setting it up, so we’ll go through each one to make sure you can always get the location of … Continued
Swift 3 Tutorial for iOS and OS X – Video
Swift 3 is Apple’s newest version of the popular and highly advanced programming language for OS X and iOS. Swift is open source, so people have adopted it for backend servers and more! It’s a great language with a lot … Continued