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  • (Swift) Creating a UITableView

    (Swift) Creating a UITableView

    Here’s a snippet on how to make a UITableView. Check out the code below! Tools:

  • (App/Extension) The Great Suspender

    (App/Extension) The Great Suspender

    I just started using this Chrome extension. It’s called The Great Suspender and it times out, or suspends, idle tabs in your browser to save memory and system resources. This is super great if you’re one of those people who have hundreds of tabs open but never seem to be able to get rid of them after…

  • 3D Printing (FormLabs Form 1+ & the Tinkerine DittoPro)

    3D Printing (FormLabs Form 1+ & the Tinkerine DittoPro)

    I recently began fiddling around with 3D printing. In hind site, I should’ve started about a year ago because I had access to a 3D printer. Unfortunately, life happened and I never got around to it. Until now. 🙂 The 3D printing machines that I have access to are the FormLabs Form 1+ and the Tinkerine DittoPro. The FormLabs…

  • (Swift) Keyboard Visibility

    (Swift) Keyboard Visibility

    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…

  • (Swift) Troubleshooting Lost Simulators

    (Swift) Troubleshooting Lost Simulators

    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…

  • (Swift) Make UILabel Conform to Length of Text

    (Swift) Make UILabel Conform to Length of Text

    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:

  • (Swift) zIndex zPosition

    (Swift) zIndex zPosition

    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.

  • (Swift) Add Target for Click Handle

    (Swift) Add Target for Click Handle

    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…

  • (Swift) Custom Segue

    (Swift) Custom Segue

    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…