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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…