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Unable to run gem install XYZ on OS X El Capitan
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…
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(Swift) Sliding UIView
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…
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(Swift) Pulsating UIView
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…
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(App/Extension) GIPHY
I wanted to give a shoutout to a cool app that I recently downloaded from the app store. It’s called GIPHY and I use it to create gifs of what I’m doing. It has a super simple user interface and thus is very intuitive to use. There is an editing feature and it is super…
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(Swift) Specifiying By Tags
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…
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(Swift) Rotating UIView
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…
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(Swift) Create Navigation with Multiple Pages with only Storyboard
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…
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(React-Native) Nesting Navigator inside TabBarIOS for ultimate history stack
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…
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GitHub gitignore files for all
Whenever I start a project I always think to myself, “What the heck do I ignore?” Sometimes it’s easy to discern. However, sometimes it’s not. For example, the past week or so I’ve been dabbling with Swift. I had no prior knowledge of Ios development and had no idea what should be exposed or not.…