In this demo, we will be using PDFKit to View and Annotate PDF file. Let us start by selecting a Single View App template and name the project as PDFDemo. For this demo, we will be using a PDF file “TheWakingLights.pdf” and this can downloaded from the github project folder. Now drag and drop this […]
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Journey with Swift
This is about my journey as a Swift developer and some of the points discussed here could be useful to anyone who want to re-invent themselves as a software developer or if they want start a career as a Software developer. Past experience I have been working in Software industry for years in wide range […]
My first iOS developer conference – try! Swift Tokyo 2017
Attending conference is one way of keeping yourself up to date with the latest trends in any industry. This is true for every software developer as well. After re-skilling myself and picking up iOS development I wanted to attend some good conferences but not many were happening in India. Heard a lot about try! Swift […]
SwiftExpress – Web Application Server in Swift
Swift Express is a simple yet powerful web application written in Apple’s Swift language. This is an initiative started by Crossload Labs using Play Framework and Express.js Installation SwiftExpress GitHub provides a well documented steps for installing the server on Mac OS X and Linux. I tried this on Mac OS X and the whole […]
iOS Swift – Firebase Demo
Firebase is a platform that allows web and mobile application to store data in cloud. In this article, we will see an example app written in Swift that uses Firebase for storing and retrieving data in real time. The source code for this demo is available under GitHub. This demo app consists of three fields […]
Search photos on Flickr – Web Service
In this tutorial we will see the steps required to write a demo app that retrieves photos from Flickr based on search text and display them in a UICollectionView. This also covers how to integrate 3rd party libaries using CocoaPods. Flickr API Register your app in Flickr and get the API key details. You will […]
UICollectionView Demo in Swift
UICollectionView can be used for displaying set of data in rows and columns The main difference between UICollectionView and UITableView is that CollectionView can be display more than one column. The following topics are covered in this article Simple collection view demo Displaying data in Collection View Implementiing Custom Cell Adding Section Headers Highlighting Cell Insert […]
Add annotations and Polyline to MapView in Swift
In this article, we will see the instructions for adding annotation to MapView, Draw Polylines and Zoom to a region in Swift. Let us see this by adding stations to a Map for Chennai subrban trains and connect these stations using Map Overlay. Project Setup Create a new project by selecting Single View Application […]