In this Swift tutorial, we will see the steps required for using CoreLocation framework and retrieve the latitude and longitude of the location. Then use the CLGeocoder to reverse geocode the latitude and longitude details. This is a very basic tutorial that retrieves the location details on tap of a button and displays the information […]
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Swift – WebView demo
Updated for Swift 5In this short tutorial, we will see an example in Swift programming language using UIWebView. The WebView will load a webpage and provide option to refresh, stop, go back and go forward. This tutorial should give a brief overview on how to declare IBAction, IBOutlets and use Objective-C classes (NSURL and NSURLRequest) […]
Assertions supported in XCTest
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…#>) […]
Fix for Directory not found for option error in Xcode
You might see Directotry not found for option error when opening an iOS 8 existing project in Xcode 7. This error because of the invalid path sepcifed from the Framework Path for the test target, (null): Directory not found for option ‘-F/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator9.2.sdk/Developer/Library/Frameworks’ This can be fixed by selected the test target, navigating Search Paths and […]
TableView Demo in Swift
In this tutorial, we will see some of the common UITableView operations such as Adding, Updating, Deleting and Moving records using Swift. Let us start with a TableView placed over a ViewController instead of using UITableViewController. By this way you will learn lot more about the functionality of UITableView. Add a new file and select […]
Memory management in Swift
Memory management in Swift is done by Automatic Reference Counting or ARC. Whenever a variables holds an instance of a object the memory count for that object increases by 1. And when variable become out of scope or set to nil, the memory count decreases 1. [code language=”swift”]class Teacher { var name: String? var course: […]
How to display line numbers in Xcode
Listed below are the steps to display line number in Xcode editor window. This is quite useful when you are working in a ground and want to communicate the line number of statement to other members. Click Xcode menu option and select Preferences from the menu list In the Preferences window, click Text Editing tab. […]
XCode Playground Overview
Playground is an interactive work environment that allows you to see the values in the sidebar for the written code. As and when you make changes to your code the sidebar reflects the changed result. Listed below are some examples written using Swift language in Playground Sum of n numbers [code language=”swift”]var sum = 0 […]