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Introduction to SwiftUI
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In this tutorial-style overview, Wei‑Meng Lee introduces SwiftUI as Apple’s modern, state-driven declarative UI framework, contrasts it with UIKit/Storyboard, and walks readers through the Xcode tools, live previews, and key concepts like views-as-functions-of-state and modifiers; he then demonstrates building a practical NewsReader app—fetching JSON, displaying lists with remote images, navigation and a WebView—so developers can quickly get hands-on experience migrating to SwiftUI.
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Developer Update: iOS 11 and iPhone X
In Apple’s new releases, there are a ton of new features to play with—even the AppStore has changed. Jason shows you how all of this impacts your development chores.
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Server-Side Swift Using Kitura
If you’re looking to build a server-side framework, you’ll want to check out IBM’s Kitura. Mohammad shows you how to build a complete service on Kitura using Swift.
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Understanding User Engagement Using Mixpanel
Before any upgrade development begins, you need to know how users interact with your app. Jason explores one great tool, Mixpanel, and shows how to get the data you need.
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Beta Test Your iOS Applications Using TestFlight
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Jason explores TestFlight, a new tool for testing your iOS apps. It has some nifty notification tools, which makes it easier to have a lot of testers—or just a few, depending on what your product needs. Check out what else it has going for it.
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Creating iMessages Apps
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Did you ever think you’d be programming apps without code? Mohammad show you how, using Apple’s iMessages framework, iOS 10, a little bit of Swift, and some Sticker Packs.
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Exploring Sticker Packs with iOS 10
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Sticker packs and emojis are used by everyone from teenagers to developers. Jason shows you how these simple tools can be more than a basic form of communication.
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Xamarin versus Cordova
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These days, you can’t target only one platform with your innovative apps. They have to look good on many types of devices and operating systems. Sahil looks at how Xamarin and Cordova translate into native apps and how you can use a combination to build even more versatile systems than ever before.
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Moving Forward: The Transition from Objective-C to Swift
If you’ve been paying attention to programming trends, you’ll see that Swift, Apple’s new language, is gaining popularity at an impressive rate. You don’t have to toss out everything you already know, though, as Jason helps you see Swift’s similarities to Objective-C.
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Push Notifications Made Easy with One Signal
With all the new things on the market, it’s hard to keep a user’s attention where it belongs: on your app. Jason explores the push-notification aspects of One Signal to help you keep your app in the forefront.
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Support Your Application Post-Launch Intelligently Using Intercom.io
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Jason shows us how to keep the development team focused on developing while creating built-in post-launch features that keep your users happy too. It’s not magic, it’s Intercom.io.
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Integrating Achievements and Leaderboards into Your iOS Game Using Game Center
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While creating a simple little mobile game app, Jason shows us the power of Game Center’s tools.
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Integrating YouTube into Your iOS Applications
You’ve made your website pretty spiffy, but the one thing it’s missing is the one thing that makes social media platforms so hard to compete with. Add sound and video to your content by making it YouTube-capable. Jason shows you how!
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All Aboard: Maximize Mobile Engagement with Interactive Onboarding
You can sell your app with creative marketing, but you’ve got to do something more to get customers to not only open your app but use it, too. Jason takes a look at onboarding techniques.
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Beyond the Phone: Developing for Apple Watch
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Remember just a few years ago when we were all excited to get touch technology on our phones, laptops, and tablets? The Next Big Thing is here, and Jason shows us how to develop for the Apple Watch.
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Implementing a Flickr Search iOS Application Using Swift
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Apple’s new language Swift is everywhere these days. Probably the most important app you could build with it is a search engine, and Mohammad shows us how using his own gardening app.
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Introduction to Swift
Mohammad Azam explores the key features of Apple's Swift programming language, introduced in 2014 as a modern alternative to Objective-C. Azam emphasizes Swift's user-friendly syntax, type safety, and performance improvements, making it more accessible to developers, especially those familiar with languages like C# and Java. Through detailed explanations of concepts such as declarations, functions, collections, optionals, closures, and generics, the article illustrates Swift's capabilities and its seamless interoperability with Objective-C libraries. Azam underscores Swift's role as a cornerstone of Apple's future development strategy, encouraging developers to embrace it for building next-generation iOS applications.
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The Parse Revolution: Why Complex Infrastructure for App Storage is a Thing of the Past
What if, as a developer, you could focus all of your efforts on building a robust front-end experience and not have to worry about constructing a complex backend infrastructure? Jason shows us how to do just that with Parse.