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…
Hello everyone, welcome back to our SwiftUI tutorial series. This time, we are going to learn one of the important features of iOS in particular and mobile in general: MapView. With SwiftUI, using a MapView Read more…
With every release of Xcode, Apple provides us with extremely useful improvements and new features. And as always, from Xcode 11.4 (beta version – up until the publish date of this article), we get another piece Read more…
Hello, welcome back to our SwiftUI tutorials series. In this article, we are going to learn how to use the photo camera and library picker in SwiftUI to take photos within our iOS apps – Read more…
In this iOS tutorial, we are going to learn how to implement a tab bar in SwiftUI by leveraging TabView. Feel free to skip directly to the source code (at the bottom of the page), Read more…
SwiftUI is a newly released framework to help iOS developers build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. SwiftUI has been launched at WWDC 2019 and has been increasing in popularity Read more…
In today’s privacy-focused world, keeping a high bar for the security of our iOS apps, by storing critical user data securely is more important than ever. When handling sensitive user data such as passwords, in-app purchases, Read more…
Over the past few years, along with the popularity of social networking applications, dating apps have also rapidly emerged. One of these most prominent applications is Tinder. It’s not only an awesome dating app, but it also Read more…
Presenting data through graphs and charts is one of the most remarkable features of mobile applications today. iOS Charts make apps look more beautiful and noticeably more attractive. We already integrated a number of Swift Read more…
For iOS developers, setting up UI programmatically might feel hard and complicated, especially if you are not very experienced in Swift. But luckily, there are a lot of libraries supporting us with this problem. One Read more…
Adding a map to an iOS app is a widely spread feature. Maps make mobile apps more interactive and improve the user experience tremendously. In our mobile app templates, we integrated maps in several apps, Read more…
Developing an iOS application is all about sending and receiving data between two or more objects. We are using all of these great design patterns (Swift delegates, notifications, closures, KVO) in our iOS Starter Kits to Read more…
With the release of Swift 5 approaching and Firebase Firestore finally getting out of beta, let’s take a look at how the Firebase Facebook Login is implemented in Swift. All of our Swift app templates Read more…
Firebase is having great momentum these days. It has gained a lot of traction among mobile developers, who are truly embracing this backend-as-a-service concept. We are using it for all of our Swift templates. In this 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…
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…
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…