Before iOS 7, we had to use either the rowHeight property on UITableView, or the tableView(_:, heightForRowAtIndexPath:) delegate method to specify the height of a table view cell; to make matters worse, we often needed complex calculations to determine the height of… Continue Reading
Apple introduced the concept of adaptive user interfaces in iOS 8 relying on a combination of Auto Layout and size classes. Building user interfaces that adapt to changes in size class became even more important when Apple added slide over… Continue Reading
Since the introduction of Swift, our behavior towards nil values have greatly changed. Swift brings type safety, and also works hard to prevent sending messages to nil by introducing Optionals. Optionals force you to write guards around your optional code at… Continue Reading
Swift comes with some implicitly defined variables – that are variables that are accessible in your code even though you’ve not explicitly defined them. These variables are helpful when logging errors or writing test code. __COLUMN__ (Int): The column number in… Continue Reading
Some weeks ago I have finished GameBench a simple two player board game framework implemented in the Swift language. It comes with a simple Connect4 App so you can learn how to use it and implement your own board games. SwiftGameBench framework… Continue Reading