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This post is about doing things when your keyboard is visible or not. You might want to have some animation when your keyboard comes into view, or you might want an alert to pop up. Whatever it may be, here’s a snippet for that. In the example below, I just have a UITextView and a UIButton set up so…

Have you ever ran into the issue of all of your simulators disappearing? I have. My buddy created a new project and when I cloned her repo, all of my simulators cleared out! Turned out that I needed to change my iOS Deployment Target. My buddy was running her project on iOS10.1 and I had not updated and…

Here’s a snippet of how you can make your UILabel conform to the width of your text. You want to use .sizeToFit() on your UILabel, otherwise you’d have to hardcode your label’s width in the CGRect. So, no more of this:

I’m a web person, and I almost always think web first. With CSS there’s a property called z-index and it’s responsible for positioning elements on the z plane. In iOS, there’s an analogous property on the layer of elements that you can augment called, zPostion.

This entry will show how you’d add a click handler to a UIButton. It’s very easy. The first thing you want to do it make a button. In this scenario, I’m just slapping it in my viewDidLoad function. You can also see that I’ve set the title and set it for the .normal state. Then, I specified the frame’s CGRect and backgroundColor. And…

This tutorial will demonstrate how to add a custom segue to your Swift app. There are a few generic segues that are available to use in Xcode, however, you might be in a situation where you need specific transitions that might be better suited for gestures. In this case, the animation in play will be…

If you’ve upgraded your computer to El Capitan and you’re getting errors while trying to install some gems, this is due to El Capitan’s introduction of SIP (System Integrity Protection). Read more about SIP here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899 The other day I was trying to run gem install bundler and got a permissions error. Not cool. Try installing to your…

Today we’re going to make a sliding UIView. Similar to the previous post, this tutorial is also very similar to my previous post about rotating UIViews, but this is how to do a sliding animation. You might need this type of animation for opening a menu or showing an alert. Tools: Step 1 to 4: Create…

This tutorial is very similar to my previous post about rotating UIViews, but this is how to do pulsating animations. You might need this type of animation for a loader, an onTap of a button, or whatever. Tools: Step 1 to 4: Create swift project, set up your storyboard, add constraints, and connect your outlets The steps…

In Swift, you can add items to your storyboard and refer to it in your code. For example, you can add a UIButton and then create an IBOutlet in your code to ‘connect’ to it. Another way to do this is by giving it a tag number. Although this way might not be the best…

This tutorial is about spinning UIViews. Why spinning things you might ask? Animations can be (for a lack of better terminology because I hate this word) delightful for users. Anywho, you might just need to animate a loading spinner thing or something for you app. In this case, I’ve just created a few UIViews and…

After one week of playing around with Swift I have some opinions on using the storyboard. It’s weird. But, it definitely makes creating an app real easy. For example, if I want to make an application that has multiple pages, I can do that all via the storyboard. Styling the pages on storyboard, is another…

A few weeks ago I started working on react-native and I wanted to build an app that had a navigation bar and tabs. Each tab was supposed have it’s own history stack and have a unique navigation bar. In order for me to do that I nested <Navigator/> inside of <TabBarIOS/> such that every time I switch to a…