Category Archives: Swift

Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 15

Today is the day when we start looking at animations. The setup is pretty straightforward so, in brief: create a new iOS Single View App project and call it “Animation” In Project > Deployment Info, select iPad as the only device and uncheck “Portrait” and “Upside Down” rom the Device Orientation category Import the “penguin@2x.png”Continue reading “Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 15”

Hacking with Swift – Challenge 14

New day, new challenge! No seriously, I have taken the decision to slow down a bit. I didn’t have two and half hours to dedicate to coding before starting this initiative and I certainly do not have them now that work is—thankfully—flowing in at a steady pace. I will continue to practice at least 1Continue reading “Hacking with Swift – Challenge 14”

Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 14

Here we are, live with the “Trying to catch up on Swift” show! This is Day 59 of my Swift learning path started on February 1st. Yes, I missed a day as last Friday was an awful day at work, really unbelievable. Anyways… today we’ll be making our second game using SpriteKit. Setting up CreateContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Learning Project 14”

Hacking with Swift – Challenge 13

In this review-challenge day we are encouraged to go and look up the list of Core Image filters and to try some of them out. Let’s start from the first thing. We start from here in the Apple Documentation description for the Core Image framework. This is just huge! Trying not to get lost isContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Challenge 13”