In this short tutorial, we are going to see the steps required use DatePicker in a iOS / Swift project. This demo is done by adding the DatePicker controls to Interface Builder and not programmatically. Date Picker Mode Date Picker control allow developers to specify the mode such as Date, Time, Date and Time and […]
Programming
Closures, Extensions and Generics in Swift
Closures Closures are self contained lines of code that can be passed around the application and similar to blocks in Objective-C. A typical closure syntax in Swift looks as shown below Closure Syntax [code language=”swift”]{ (parameters) -> return type in statements }[/code] Example closure in Swift [code language=”swift”]{ (name:String, message:String -> (String) in message + […]
Tuples, Enums and Protocols in Swift
Tuples in Swift allows user to assign group of values to a variable, constant and even return parameter of a function. In the below example, a employee constant is assigned Int and String values. And to access these parameters, we need to use .0 and .1 [code language=”swift”]let employee = (103, “Deepak”) employee.0 employee.1[/code] Now […]
Class and Struct in Swift
Download the playground file from github (Classes and Struct) Class A class is a blue print for a real-word entity such Player, Person etc. and it is used for creating objects. Class can have properties to store values and methods to add behaviour. Let us see this with an example class called Rectangle which has […]
Retrieve list of Twitter followers using Swift
This article provides details about the the steps required to retrieve the followers in from your twitter account. You will learn the following by going through this article Use oAuth to retrieve bearer token. Retrieve twitter followers using API call. Last 20 followers name and profile image will be displayed in a tableview. Download the […]
How to record and play sound in Swift
In this tutorial, we are going to see the required steps to record and play sound in Swift Programming language using AVAudioRecorder and AVAudioPlayer Download source code from github (SoundController.swift) User Interface The user interface for this demo is simple with two buttons, one for recording and another for playing sound. Create corresponding IBAction and […]
UITextFieldDelegate in Swift
This is a beginners tutorial on UITextFieldDelegate in Swift. We are going to see how to use UITextFieldDelegate by writing a Simple Interest Calculator. Download the source code from here This calculator uses UILabels and TextFields for displaying and accepting amount and interest. We are going to use the UITextFieldDelegate method to navigate from “Principal […]
SplitViewController example in Swift
This is a beginners tutorial on SplitViewController using Interface builder with programming language as Swift. There are also some good articles available on SplitViewController, check them out as well – nhipster and whoisryannystrom. Create a new Single View Application. Choose Language option as Swift and provide a product name. Navigate to Main.Storyboard and select default […]