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 controller. But it is also possible to… Continue reading Loading a View from a XIB
Container ViewController
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 times, container view… Continue reading Container ViewController
Objective-C: Lightweight Generics
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.
Singletons in Swift
Some people love it, some people hate it – but in the end everybody uses it: the singleton pattern. It is used if just one instance of an object is desired. For example, that could be a database connection.
Outsource your UITableViewDataSource!
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.
One Year of Swift
One year ago Apple introduced Swift, which was a very surprising move. What remains after one year?
The 10 Best Xcode Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can make your life better – or at least your workflow quicker. Here’s a list of the ten best ones:
Swift 2.0: defer
defer is another new keyword in Swift. With this statement you can declare clean-up code, that is executed just before the current scope ends. For example, this scope can be a function or a loop.
Swift 2: guard
In Swift 2, there is a new keyword for handling the control-flow of a block of code. It guarantees, that a specific condition holds true for the further code. Otherwise, it ensures that the following code will not be executed. Let us start with a simple example. Imagine you have a function, that has an optional… Continue reading Swift 2: guard
