Generally, there are two ways to layout views: building it in interface builder or by coding. Both ways have their applications, but in many cases the interface builder way is more comfortable. If you layout a view in the interface builder, then it is most times associated with a view

Basically, there are two types of view controllers: Content view controllers and container view controllers. Container view controllers are used to manage some set of content view controllers and present them as so-called child view controllers, whereas content view controllers are used to present – surprise – some content. Most of the

Since Xcode 7 there are so-called “Lightweight” Generics in Objective-C. The biggest benefit of this feature is a better interoperability between Objective-C and Swift. The Basics Let’s start with an example. Before the introduction of generics, you declared a mutable array in Objective-C as follows: NSMutableArray *stringArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]

It is very common that the controller of an UITableView is also its data source. This is the number one reason why view controllers tend to become very massive. Outsourcing the data source to an object on its own is a better solution. Hint: This post has been updated to

Keyboard shortcuts can make your life better – or at least your workflow quicker. Here’s a list of the ten best ones: Editor 1. Shift – Command – O: File search  2. Option – Command – ArrowDown / ArrowUp: Switch beetween .h and .m counterparts 3. Shift – Command – F: General search   4. Ctrl – Command – J: