In this article, we are describing in details how to integrate Apple Pay into an iOS app. We’ll code in the latest version of Swift and the code samples are extracted from our beautiful app templates, many of which have built-in support for Apple Pay. Feel free to download them directly, if you want to Continue reading
How to color UIImage objects programmatically in Swift
UIImage is the Swift approach to modeling images. In order to display an image on the screen, you’re most likely going to use UIImageView, which takes a UIImage object and presents it in the view hierarchy. To color UIImage objects there’s some extra work required. Coloring images can be very helpful when dealing with app Continue reading
Swift 4+ tutorial: Adding header and footer to UICollectionView
There are many situations when you’d like to add a header and footer to a UICollectionView component, in Swift. Regardless whether it’s a simple title or a more advanced view, UICollectionView supports headers and footers out of the box, without too much boilerplate code. The main advantages of using this approach are that the alternatives Continue reading
Don’t Make These 3 Deadly Mistakes When Trying to Make $$$ in iOS App Development
There is no doubt that there are piles of money to be made in iOS app development. After all, Apple owned 15.2 percent of the global smartphone market last year. However, the worldwide popularity of the iPhone does not mean that an iOS app developer can simply do whatever he or she wants when creating Continue reading
Design Patterns in Mobile apps – Skeleton Views
As mobile app development becomes more dominant in the tech world, we can observe several design patterns emerging across the entire mobile app design ecosystem. One of these design subsystems is the skeleton views. Skeleton Views are being used primarily to create an effect of speed and reliability, whenever the app encounters performance barriers, Continue reading
Accelerators – Modern UX Design Patterns in Mobile Apps
In the past couple of years, a wave of new modern UX design patterns has emerged within the mobile design ecosystem. Many of these patterns became incredibly popular, given their success on highly scalable apps. In this series of articles, we’ll emphasize a few of these UX patterns, and discuss the benefits of applying them Continue reading
Drawer menu implementation in Swift 4
Many of our fully-coded iPhone app templates consist of a drawer menu navigation. This type of navigation usually is triggered by tapping on a menu button on the top left corner of the screen. Once clicked, the menu gets extended from the left side and takes over two-thirds of the screen. Here, the users can Continue reading
Firebase Database as backend for your Android/iOS app
Firebase Database is a free backend infrastructure product, provided by Google, that serves as a backend for your mobile app. It can store an unlimited amount of unstructured data, that can be queried in real-time by mobile apps with only a few lines of code, due to the powerful SDKs provided by Google. Any mobile Continue reading
How to convert HEX colors to UIColor in Swift 4?
There are many situations when you want to create an UIColor object from a hex color string. In this post, we provide a code sample that will help you convert hex colors to UIColor objects. While generally, you can get away with this by manually converting the hex code to RGB (using an online converter, Continue reading
Swift tutorial: Collection view layout with flexible cell sizes
There are many use cases where you want your app to display collections of UI elements with flexible cell sizes, that render compactly on the screen, taking up as much space as possible. Unfortunately, achieving this in Swift is not straightforward and having collection views dealing with cells of different heights and widths can be Continue reading