Regular Expressions Regular Expressions in Swift and iOS I didn't actually plan on writing this post. However, things didn't go as I expected them to go. Today I was helping someone with Regular Expression which I thought was my forte and it still failed me. The regular expression exercise which I was arrogant about finishing in 10 minutes
Swift Closure Trick in Swift Today I learned a closure trick in Swift. Usually when expression is assigned to a variable on left, it is evaluated instantly. For example, let value = complexCalculation() func complexCalculation() -> String { return "Something useful" } In this example, when value is assigned a result of complexCalculation() method, it
Touch Touch ID Authentication in the app Today I am going to write about implementing and using Touch ID authentication in an iOS app. Touch ID authentication API was introduced in iOS 8 release. It is a part of LocalAuthentication framework. The code to include it in your app spans only few lines and easy to integrate.
Facebook An iOS library to apply Pride Effect A Library to apply Facebook style pride parade effect to photos With the ongoing LGBT pride month, it reminds me of the pride effect I created a couple of years back. My original source of inspiration was Facebook which allowed people to overlay their photos with pride theme colors. I
iOS Making a crater in UIView with CALayer Although title sounds horrible, believe me - It's not that bad. This is a trick I learned from StackOverflow post. Although seemingly innocuous, it took me a while to figure out given the view, how to puncture any shape into it. To make it more interesting let's not only add
UIScrollView Using UIScrollView with Autolayout on Xcode using Swift Note : This post is based on Using UIScrollView with Auto Layout in iOS published on Atomic Object blog.TL; DR; The code to support UIScrollView with autolayout is open-sourced and hosted on Github. The wrapper can be found here and example on how to use it is listed hereRecently I
3D Touch iOS 3D Touch - Measuring the force of touch (Part 3) This is the third part of the series of 3 posts on how to use 3D force touch on an iOS. Posts are as follows Quick actions Peek and pop actions Measuring the force of touch Measuring a force of touch in terms of unit could be useful in some
CSS Making Wayfair logo with CSS Right now I am so excited to get a job offer from Wayfair Inc. I cannot tell how happy I am. One of the things I liked most about Wayfair was their creative logo. It is as vibrant as it could get. This weekend having spend my most of the
Demo iPhone 3D Touch Demo Finally after more than a year since Apple release a phones with 3D touch, I am writing this blog post. Way to go for my motivation! If you are willing to do hands on first, please go to my GitHub repository for handling 3D touch and try the demo out
iOS iOS Animations - Part 1 This is the first part of series of blog posts on iOS animations. Hope you will enjoy this series. I am also looking forward to hear your thoughts, input and suggestions on the content. Image animation using image sprite It was a while after I started iOS development I came
iOS Change cell appearance on selection As an iOS developer you might have run into situations where you want to change the cell appearance when particular cell is selected. Naive approach to this would be (Which by the way I did before I came to know about this little trick) to keep track of two indexPaths.
iOS UITableViewCell automatic height management We all know that iOS8 brought in really nice changes. Well, it be will be too long post to describe all of them. But I will talk about one of my most favorite features Apple added into this release. Automatic height management for UITableViewCell with Autolayout Yes, you can fit
