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Tutorial: Force Upgrade in Swift
Sometimes you need all users to use the same version of your App. There are many reasons for this but the most popular is to ensure all users have a specific new feature that’s only available in the latest version. Another popular reason is you changed a data source or functionality that is no longer […]
Tutorial: Get Facebook Friends using the Facebook SDK in Swift
Note: Newer tutorial available. If you would like to learn how to implement FBSDKGraphRequest using Facebook SDK 4.0 using Swift, read Tutorial: How To Use Login in Facebook SDK 4.0 for Swift You’ve probably noticed that most successful games contain a Facebook Leaderboard so users can compete against their friends. You can read more about […]
Learn Swift by Video
I don’t know about you, but when I need to learn something I find it easier to watch someone else do it first. That’s why when I wanted to learn Swift I went in search of the best video series I could find. It’s almost like being in a classroom and listening to an instructor […]
Tutorial: Calculate Age in Swift
For a new application I’m working on I needed to capture the birth date of a user and validate if they are old enough to use the app. Below is a simple method in Swift to return the age of a user after passing in the users birthday. func calculateAge (birthday: NSDate) -> NSInteger { […]
Tutorial: Post to Web Server API in Swift using NSURLConnection
In the past I have always used the ASIHTTPRequest third-party library to make an asynchronous request to a server. It’s been outdated for at least a year but still worked for all I needed it for. I thought I’d look for a more native approach to use in Swift instead of using a Bridging Header […]
