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
Category: Swift programming
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
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
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
Share content to Facebook and Twitter in Swift 3 – SLComposeViewController
We’re currently working on an iOS template that lets you create an iPhone app for your WordPress blog in a matter of minutes. While implementing this, we had to come up with a mechanism that allows users to share content to Facebook and Twitter. This is an important functionality for a blogger since everyone wants their Continue reading
Why should you localize iOS apps?
Localization is the process of adapting a client app to a specific language. A localized mobile app renders all its content in the user’s language. In this article, we discuss a few key aspects on why you should localize iOS apps. While it could be obvious while this is a good idea, most developers would Continue reading
How to implement an RSS Feed Parser in Swift
While working on a brand new iOS app template for WordPress sites, we encountered the problem of writing an RSS Feed Parser in Swift. It turns out there’s a straightforward approach to parsing a WordPress RSS Feed in Swift 3, so we thought to share this on our blog, hoping this will come in handy Continue reading