Learning Swift — Days 138 to 144

Hacking with Swift — Learning Project 33 Still at the airport, checking starting in about one hour and a half so I still have some time to practice some coding. Project 33 is about building a crowd-sourced song recognition app using Apple’s free platform as a service: CloudKit. Is this something like … Shazam?! So,Continue reading “Learning Swift — Days 138 to 144”

Learning Swift — Days 136 to 137

Hacking with Swift — Learning Project 32 Today’s project is about adding our app’s content to Spotlight in iOS and take advantage of Safari integration. Setting up Create a new Single View App Xcode Project, call it “Swift Searcher” and save it somewhere sensible. Automatically resizing UITableViewCells with Dynamic Type and NSAttributedString Let’s refresh ourContinue reading “Learning Swift — Days 136 to 137”

Learning Swift — Days 134 to 135

Hacking with Swift — Learning Project 31 After a good pause where I feel I have almost forgotten everything, it is time to go on and finish this book, before going back, reviewing it all and creating my coding snippets library so that, when my memory will fail, and it will fail, I will knowContinue reading “Learning Swift — Days 134 to 135”

Learning Swift — Days 127-131

Strengthening our skills Day 127 part 2 Xcode Shortcut commands Navigation Area Cmd-0: hides or shows the Navigator Cmd-1…8: cycles through the different navigators Cmd-Option-0: hides of shows the Inspectors Cmd-Option-1…8: cycles through the different (available) inspectors. Cmt-Shift-Y: hides or shows the Debug area Editors Cmd-Option-Enter: invokes the Assistant Editor Cmd-Enter: go back to StandardContinue reading “Learning Swift — Days 127-131”