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The Hunger, An introduction to protocols in Swift

The Hunger, An introduction to protocols in Swift

This swfdift guide shows how to implement a protocol in swift. Source code of the “Hungry Owls” app is availabtle. The animation & design are intended to help visualize the concept.

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Learn Swift by Example – Part 1 Structs

Learn Swift by Example – Part 1 Structs

If you’re interested in learning Swift, we are starting a new tutorial series that will explain language features in detail. Today we released part 1. It discusses the importance of structs in Swift.

As always feedback is appreciated!

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Develop a Push Notification enabled app and .Net Based Push Notification Server

Develop a Push Notification enabled app and .Net Based Push Notification Server

In the latest addition to our range of tutorials, we will be exploring the realm of push notifications. This tutorial will help you to learn to develop an app that utilises the push notification, and simultaneously, allow you to develop a .Net based push notification server.

Getting smack in the middle of a rather hectic schedule, caused my absence through the series. Now that there is finally some time to breathe, I hope we can reconnect as we venture out to our latest programming adventure.

Our agendas for this rendition of the tutorial series are:

Why this particular blog post;
What is a notification center and its pros and cons;
Before writing the first line of code, what you should configure in the iOS Dev Center to use “Notification Center”
What we need to use inside our app to enable the Notification Center
Finally, how to develop a Notification Server which serves the notification to the app users with the help of the Apple Notification Center

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A study into swift strings.

A study into swift strings.

A look at simple string usage in Swift, with boilerplate code supplied.

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Essential Swift: The First Step in Developing Modern Apps

Essential Swift: The First Step in Developing Modern Apps

Essential  Swift: The First Step in Developing Modern Apps

In this tutorial, you can learn the essential aspects of Apple’s latest technology for developing apps for both OS X and for iOS.  Once you learn the essential aspects of the Swift programming language, you can go on to learn how to develop apps for Mac, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.

By learning the Swift language first, and then learning how to make apps second, you won’t be as overwhelmed by how much there is to learn.

The lessons in “Essential Swift” are sequenced in a logical order, including the things that you must know, and leaving intermediate and advanced features of the language for later; perhaps after you have finished this course and have begun to learn to develop apps.

This course if free for the time being.  Donations are  appreciated :).

Please send your questions and comments to me at: [email protected]

— Kaydell

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SWIFT Tutorial – make your own iOS MapKit application

SWIFT Tutorial – make your own iOS MapKit application

MapKit is a nice little framework developed by Apple. We will learn to integrate this MapKit with the Google Map javascript api and thus develop a complete application using Swift.

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Swift Tutorial: Build a Facebook Album Browser

Swift Tutorial: Build a Facebook Album Browser

Md. Arifuzzaman published this tutorial to make a basic Facebook Album Browser using Swift. To make this simple program, you will need: Facebook SDK for iOS, knowledge  of  Objective C Framework/Library in Swift, TableView in swift,  Notification API in iOS and some basic ideas about Storyboard and MVC.

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How to create UI components in iOS 8 using Swift

How to create UI components in iOS 8 using Swift

In this Tutorial Andrei Puni from weheartswift shows you how to create UI components for iOS8 Applications with the 2 new interface builder declaration attributes IBInspectable and IBDesignable. You will probably need 10 minutes to complete this Tutorial.

Andrei released the used code on GitHub and a little demo video.

Enjoy the Tutorial.

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Building a To Do List App

Building a To Do List App

Shiva Narrthine from the iOS Blog posted an Tutorial how to build an simple To Do List App with Apple Swift Language. He guides you through all the Steps from creating the project in X-Code over building the User Interface, the Controllers and coding the Logic. I personally recommend this Tutorial to all developers that want to create their first App in Swift. This pretty simple App is the perfekt entry to the world of Swift. Once you’ve finished the Tutorial you can go on and add additional Features like priorities for tasks, deadlines or task groups. Just be creative!

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Swift vs. Scala

Swift vs. Scala

Denys Shabalin published a nice PDF that compares Apple’s Swift Language with Scala. He compares Control Flow, Expressions, Declarations, Patterns, Types. This little CheatSheet is very useful for every Scala Developer that dives into Swift Language.

Scala and Swift have some similarities and differences. Explore these by downloading the PDF now.

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