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Swift 3 - Set Home Address for a New CNContact Instance

Adding contact address information via code using Swift 3.x
Swift 3 - Set Home Address for a New CNContact Instance

How to Stop Squandering Your Precious Mac Development Resources

Let's cover some of the most effective ways to get more out of your Mac development environment to help increase your performance and capacity as a developer.
How to Stop Squandering Your Precious Mac Development Resources

What's New in Swift 2

At WWDC15, Apple announced Swift 2. This article will go over some of the features you’re most likely to use. Swift 2 works with Xcode 7, which is also now available.

Swift Tips & Tricks: Using Functions as Parameters in Swift

Learn how to use functions such as Parameters and other practical things in Swift. Here are some quick tricks you can try.

Swift Tips & Tricks: Protocol Extensions in Swift

Need a quick tip to add protocol extensions in Swift? Find your answer here!

Making a Bookkeeping App with NSUserDefaults and Complex Objects

In my previous article, the basics of how to persist data using NSUserDefaults were covered. Now we'll see how to persist custom classes that we create. These classes will be contained in an array. We'll save the entire array to NSUserDefaults.
Making a Bookkeeping App with NSUserDefaults and Complex Objects

iOS Quicktip: Adjusting View for Text Entry in a UITableView

Learn this iOS quick tip to learn how to automate adjusting view for text entry in a UITableView.

Create a Facebook Share Button and Twitter Tweet Button for Your iOS Swift App

This IOS tutorial will cover tips on how to create a Facebook Share Button and Twitter Tweet Button on your IOS Swift App
Create a Facebook Share Button and Twitter Tweet Button for Your iOS Swift App

Build a Sample iPhone App that Saves a User's Session Data with NSUserDefaults

##Introduction: Create a Great User Experience If your app requires any kind of workflow or data entry, it is best to save app state periodically upon shutdown. Otherwise, users can lose all of their work. This would not only be a loss of data but also of time. One of your main goals is to create a great user experience. In regards to...
Build a Sample iPhone App that Saves a User's Session Data with NSUserDefaults

Two Basic Ways To Populate Your UITableView

There are two main base ways to populate a tableview. The more popular is through Interface Building, using a prototype cell UI object. The other is strictly through code when you don't need a prototype cell from Interface Builder. Let's understand how these two are used and when should one be used over the other.

Understanding Async Programming with Starbucks

Many people struggle to get their head around asynchronous programming, so here's a beginner-friendly explanation that that will help you understand what async programming does with a real-life example.
Understanding Async Programming with Starbucks

Parse Tutorial: Customizing Your Twitter/Facebook Signup/Login Views

In this Parse tutorial, you'll learn how to add and customize a simple Log In and Sign Up flow, and adjust it to look like a professional polished app with minimal efforts.
Parse Tutorial: Customizing Your Twitter/Facebook Signup/Login Views

Parse Tutorial: Adding a Twitter/Facebook Signup/Login to Your iOS App

Kiss those long hours spent on setting up the login screen goodbye thanks to Parse, which offers a great platform to handle signups and integration with Facebook and Twitter for free. In this tutorial, we’ll look at how to setup a custom Login and Signup view, so you can get users signed up with minimal effort.
Parse Tutorial: Adding a Twitter/Facebook Signup/Login to Your iOS App

Step by Step Guide to Configuring Your Apple Developer Account

Just getting started with building your first iOS app? Here's a step by step guide on how to get your developer account set up so you can successfully compile an ipa.
Step by Step Guide to Configuring Your Apple Developer Account

iOS9 3DTouch Tutorial: Introduction

With iPhone 6s+ & iOS9, you can now develop apps with 3DTouch, an interesting new way for users to interact with your apps. This article will serve as an intro to what you can do with 3DTouch.
iOS9 3DTouch Tutorial: Introduction

Swift Quick Tip: Using Apple MapKit's MKLocalSearch

Have you ever wondered which restaurants were nearby? Apple’s MapKit framework provides an easy way to lookup places via natural language search - here's how.
Swift Quick Tip: Using Apple MapKit's MKLocalSearch

Swift Beginner's Guide to View Animations

Want to make your app more interesting and attractive? In this tutorial you are going to learn how to use View animation and how to convert a simple view into an awesome view.
Swift Beginner's Guide to View Animations

iOS QuickTip: Getting and Reading JSON Data from a URL

Here's an iOS tutorial / quick tip on how to retrieve JSON data from a URL using minimum code.
iOS QuickTip: Getting and Reading JSON Data from a URL

20 iOS Developer Interview Questions

Have an upcoming iOS interview for a developer position? Codementor Matt has been giving technical interviews for 12 years - here are some tips as well as sample questions & answers that will help you prepare.
20 iOS Developer Interview Questions

Enumerations and mappings to other enumerations

Swift enumerations are cool, and here is a neat use case and example of how to use Swift enumerations.
Enumerations and mappings to other enumerations