Kaixo! Ramblings written by Smith Suth who works at the intersection of Design, Engineering, and Product.

Here’s a snippet on how to detect typing on your Swift app. It’s pretty simple because we’re utilizing the UITextViewDelegate delegate. Aka, built in success – thank you Swift! Tools: This snippet is pretty short. See below for some code that…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…