Here you can find the list of Assertions supported by XCTest and it is essential to know all these assertion if you are practicing Test Driven Development in IOS. You can get this list from XCTestAssertions.h XCTFail(<#format…#>) – This unconditionally fails the test. XCTAssertNil(<#a1#>, <#format…#>) – Failure message when object is not nil. XCTAssertNotNil(<#a1#>, <#format…#>) […]
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Content Priority in Auto Layout
Auto Layout brings in lots of good features to ease the life of an iOS developer when designing User Interfaces. In this example, we will see how to use Content Priorities such as Content Hugging and Comrpession Resistance. I have created a project with Single View Template and dispayed Size Classes as we are going […]
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 […]
Auto Layout in iOS
Using Auto Layout feature developers can align UI controls for different devices, screen sizes and orientation. This reduces the code to be maintained and makes life easy for the developers. Auto Layout solves UI design issues by creating relationship between the UI elements. This follows constraint based layout system where you can define contraints for […]
Access Control in Swift
Swift like other programming languages provides option to restrict access to classes, functions, variables, structs, enums etc applying the required Access Control. These restrictions are based on each module, as per Apple documentation a module is defined as A module is a single unit of code distribution—a framework or application that is built and shipped as a […]
How to customize status bar in iOS
Status Bar appears at the top of your device displaying information such as battery left in your device and carrier details. The default style of status bar is black and looks as shown in the below screenshot. But if your screen designs are dark then you can change the status bar style to Light Content. […]
Tab Bar Controller with WebView
In this article, we will see step by step instruction on working of Tab Bar Controller, UIWebView and Activity Indicator by loading couple of web pages using UIWebView in two different Tabs. Tab Bar Controller Tab Bar Controller is used for organizing list of View Controllers by having seperate tabs for each View Controller. Check […]