Michele Galvagno

Hacking with Swift – Challenge 8

Review Time for a new challenge but first, let’s review what we have learned in this huge lesson: The placeholder text for a UILabel is shown in gray when the text field is empty. Using UIFont.systemFont(ofSize:) ensures our app uses the default system font for iOS (which will keep us safe for future versions asContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Challenge 8”

Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 8

These last two days have been particularly heavy. My iPhone XS fell and the camera broke and, sincerely, I am not trusting the Serbian Apple Premium Resellers since I will be back to Italy on Wednesday. Then, yesterday morning, my external LaCie P9227, formatted with half a TB dedicated to TimeMachine and 1.5TB dedicated toContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 8”

Hacking with Swift – Challenge 7

I know, I am at least one day late, but here in Belgrade there is so much to do—beside going to the dentist!— that it is really difficult to find the time! Anyway… Today is challenge day for the 7th project! First, though, let’s review all the awesome things we learned: JSON decoding using Swift’sContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Challenge 7”

Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 7

So, what is the best way not to lose your work? Save it before you publish right? I have decided to try a new tool (new for me at least) for managing all of my writing even if it will be a paid tool. I am now writing my articles using Ulysses for the nextContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 7”

Hacking with Swift — Challenge 6

I really hope this time the article will be saved somewhere. I will also maintain local copies of it from now henceforth. Review Before we face our challenge we need to review what was learned in this project. Specifically: We can force our app to run only in specific orientations. This is done in ProjectContinue reading “Hacking with Swift — Challenge 6”