My Magic Hours project – what’s up next
This is my 20th post filed under get noticed tag, which means that I have reached the contest’s finish line :) Hip hip hooray! So I’ve made a short movie on this occasion, showing what my app can do at the moment. I have to warn you,…
Who doesn’t like hamburgers? ;)
A hamburger menu or a pancake menu is a button usually placed in a top corner of a mobile app. The name comes from button’s icon which takes form of three horizontal lines ☰ resembling the layers of a hamburger or a pile of pancakes. I love both ;)…
Implementing UICollectionView with horizontal scrolling and dynamic cell sizes
One of my magic hours app feature will be the ability to search for a location and save it for the future use. I need a control that will display my stored locations and I decided that I’ll place it at the bottom of the app’s…
Localizing iOS app with SwiftGen
I came with my app development to a stage where I’m about to inform user about various things happening behind the scenes. This means that I have to present messages like: estimating current location, fetching weather forecast, etc. somewhere in the user interface. And this is the…
Fetching weather forecast in Swift
Yesterday I got really excited :) I’m talking about a feeling when you’re dealing with something which is still new for you, but at the same time you begin to understand how things are organised and what should be done to achieve the goal. I felt…
Getting off the beaten track
Every software developer has a set of programming habits that he or she has built over time. I’m talking about naming convention, code formatting rules, favourite language structures, design patterns, etc. Show me the code and I’ll tell you who of my work colleagues is…
Creating custom control in Swift
I spent last two evenings working on my app’s main screen. Again, Xcode was driving me crazy with random bugs that efficiently slowed me down ;) I needed to add an action by ctrl dragging element from storyboard to ViewController class. As I already…
Calculating sunrise and sunset hours in Swift
After two days of struggle I came up with my application screen showing this :) There’s sunrise time in the first label and sunset time in the second. At least now I can see the pros of having emoji here :). Calculating these two is crucial for…
Damn, it’s hard…
It’s hard to get used to the new IDE, new shortcuts, new programming language and the new OS at the same time. I feel like a kid who got lost in the woods. And it’s getting dark! Stay calm, don’t panic and try to…
Tuples and enums in Swift are cool ;)
In my last entry I did complain a little about some of Swift wonders I have recently discovered, so today I’m going to look at the bright side of Swift, just to keep the balance ;) I’m going to focus on two data structures: tuples…
Trying to make friends with Swift
I finally managed to upgrade my mac to Sierra and was able to install the new version of Xcode. Hip, hip, hooray! I can go on now with the next chapters of my favourite App Development with Swift :) It’s worth to mention that the book is…
You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs…
Things got a little complicated today. I bet you know the feeling when simple tasks escalate in time consuming issues, just like that, out of the blue. You try to find the solution, you find the solution, you follow the steps necessary to resolve…
Swift for dummies
Swift is a relatively new programming language (introduced in 2014) developed by Apple for iOS and macOS. It was designed as an alternative for Objective-C: simpler syntax, no pointers and dot-notation style, which makes it a more friendly language to learn for people like me,…
Magic hours, my project for „Get noticed” contest
Two weeks ago I wrote a post confirming my willingness to take part in Get noticed contest. At that moment I wasn’t still sure what my project is going to be about. I only knew I wanted to focus on the mobile development. The contest…