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 – 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 — 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”

Hacking with Swift – Challenge 5

I will have to be as concise as possible today (and in the next two days) because I am travelling abroad for a ten-day  and even if I will for sure be able to dedicate my daily hour to Swift I would probably not be able to write and especially publish my report until aContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Challenge 5”

Hacking with Swift – Challenge 4

It is now time to review what we learned in Project 4 (Easy Browser). Personally this was a rather big step up in difficulty from previous projects and the speed with which Paul goes makes me feel like I am a bit walking on eggs. The new subjects were clearly explained but if I didn’tContinue reading “Hacking with Swift – Challenge 4”