On December 3, 2015 Apple made good on its promise to open source Swift, their new language for development on Apple platforms. Moreover, with this announcements come Swift running on a Linux server!
Welcome back, today we are going to create a particle emitter for our NewHorizons game. Before we begin, download the latest build via [GitHub](https://github.com/Mav3r1ck/New-Horizons).
I was is need of a Alert Controller thet was self dismissed. Here’s how I did that: Create a Single View Application. Define a global variable for the UIAlertController. let alertView = UIAlertController(title: "Wait 3 seconds", message: "This message will selfdiscruct after... Continue Reading →
I wanted some code to be triggered after a timer was done. Here’s a simple example of that and how I did it. Add a Single View Application. Create a label to see that our code works, change it’s label... Continue Reading →
Zlib is a C library used for data compression. In this post, I'll show you how to deflate (compress) and inflate (decompress) your data using zlib. Create a new Swift project, go to Linked Framewor...
The iPhone has the built-in ability to alert the user with a vibration.
Sting the System Sound services the vibration can be triggered. In this
tutorial the vibration will be triggered 5 times. This tutorial is made
with Xcode 7 and built for iOS9. Note this app is built for a real devices,
since the iOS Simulator doesn't have vibration.
In this video we'll look at how to make iPhone apps talk using text to speech. The AVSpeechSynthesizer is a class that takes text, and produces speech.
I was recently in need of adding a volume control to an App that uses AVPlayer to play a stream from Internet. Here’s I solved it (excluding all the parts besides the volume control). In your project you already have... Continue Reading →
Here’s how to get rid of the “App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource load since it is insecure. Temporary exceptions can be configured via your app’s Info.plist file.” error message when using http in your code.... Continue Reading →
Welcome to part V of our tutorial series were we continue creating our New Horizons game. If your joining us for the first time make sure you have completed part I, II, III, and IV before continuing. This weekend we...
Here’s a way of doing that. Create a new Single View Application. Drag and drop the images you want to your project and name them Bars-0, Bars-1 and so on. (In my project they are called Bars-0, Bars-1, Bars-2 and Bars-3). I... Continue Reading →
Here’s an example on how to add an Interstitial iAd once the App is started and an iAd i available. Create a new Single View Application. In ViewController.swift, import iAd. import iAd Make sure your ViewController is a delegate for your ad. class... Continue Reading →