The Process — Before we start Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 13.31, and Swift 5.6 Prerequisites: You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application in Swift. Keywords and Terminology: Bundle: A representation of the code and resources stored in a bundle directory on disk. The Idea …

Probably Cheaper On Cyber Monday Too — I’ve spent so much money I things that I don’t use enough. The PS5? Not turned on for 2 weeks. The Switch? I check the NSO games each month and then don’t play them. The Mac? I code all day on a work machine and just write a few articles…

The what and the why — Before we start Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 12.2, and Swift 5.3 Keywords and Terminology Class: An object that defines properties and methods in common Subclass: A class that inherits from a superclass Superclass: The class that is being inherited from UIButton: A control that responds…

Pass a request along until someone handles it! — Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 11.5 and Swift 5.2.4 The chain of responsibility is an OO version of if … else in a way that promotes the idea of loose coupling within your App. Prerequisites: You will be expected to be…

Sorry to my followers — You know I’ve managed to write over 500 article on Medium. These are mostly based around iOS programming and Swift/SwiftUI but there are a few Python articles and general programming articles. I write quite a number of lines of code for these articles, as you might imagine. I’ve used a…

A simple comparison — Before we start Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging Keywords and Terminology: Bash: Bash, which stands for Bourne Again SHell, is a command-line interpreter that runs on Unix, Linux, and Apple computers Shell: a computer program which exposes an operating system’ s services to a human user or other program Terminal: an interface that…

Has that changed? — Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 11.5, and Swift 5.2.4 Prerequisites: You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application in Swift. UICollectionViewDiffableDataSource is reliant on Hashable so some knowledge of that would be useful Enums are…

Reassure me — I’ve made a mistake. The same mistake. Multiple times. I’m not an idiot, though. Let me explain my thinking. The mistakes The initial mistake Back in 2016 I needed to buy a Macbook to replace my ageing Macbook Air. I needed to use it for iOS coding (clearly) and also any computer activities that my…

Make it look good — Before we start Difficulty: Beginner | Easy| Normal | Challenging This article has been developed using Xcode 12.2, and Swift 5.3 Prerequisites You will be expected to be aware of how to make a Single View Application in Swift Keywords and Terminology UIImage: An object that manages image data UIImageView: An object that displays a single image…