As an iOS developer spending most of my time in Xcode, I realized how unproductive I was due to constantly switching back and forth between Xcode, Terminal, Github, and Source Tree. As a result, I Read more…
While building the push notifications feature for our iOS Chat app, we’ve encountered the need to send device to device push notifications in Swift with Firebase. Until a while ago, this was not even possible Read more…
Every iOS app should leverage push notifications to boost user engagement and retention. Push notifications are a powerful tool, but implementing them in Swift 5 has been historically tricky since you usually needed a server. If Read more…
It’s extremely common for a mobile app to support dynamic features such as user management and user-generated content, like social posts, photo uploads, or private messages. To build this functionality, an iOS developer will need Read more…
As the mobile industry continues to evolve, more and more entrepreneurs are looking to build their own iOS apps and publish them to the App Store. The technology has also evolved tremendously in the past Read more…
There is some good news coming out from Q3 2018: the App Store generates almost double the revenue made by Google Play. Not only it makes more money, but the App Store revenue is also Read more…
Building a mobile app used to be a difficult job and only well-versed mobile developers had the ability to do it. But as the mobile development industry evolved over the last few years, the bar Read more…
In this blog post, we are featuring the best iOS walkthrough app designs of 2018, which you can use for your own inspiration. We’ve selected a list of gorgeous UI app templates that are meant Read more…
While working on our newly launched Dashboard iOS app template, we had to figure out how to add a padding to the placeholder of a UITextField control. It turned out there’s no native support for Read more…
iOS has built-in support for adding shadows to UIView components. All you need to do in order to add a shadow to a UIView object is to set the shadow properties of the view’s layer. Shadows Read more…
Debugging code written in Swift/Objective-C can be tricky sometimes, especially for someone who’s just starting to learn iOS programming. We’re listing a few techniques and tools for debugging code in Xcode, that any successful mobile app Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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. Read more…
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. Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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. Read more…