The Storyboard vs Programmatic approach debate

I'm finally weighing in on this. First of all I hesitated to do this earlier because I wanted to experience the frustrations of using either approaches myself. I have found myself on the business end of this error more times than I care to handle this past month. storyboard "Main" doesn't contain a view controller …

How to open a URL in Safari using WKWebView

Hi everyone and welcome back! In this post I want to show you how you can open any url on your safari-simulator.   The code is pretty simple, you just need to import WebKit and create an instance of it in the loadView() method.  Make your ViewController the webView you just created by assigning it …

How To Use: Xcode

In this post I will be showing you how to use Xcode so that you can get started on app development. As i'll be using Xcode 9 throughout my tutorials, I suggest you update to Xcode 9. Here are the steps I'm going to go through: Downloading Xcode Creating first project Different sections of Xcode …

Git/GitHub 101

The first time I used Git I was so confused 😂. I later learnt it helps to remember that it all narrows down to these 3 commands: git add . git commit -m "<your message>" git push <name of branch> master Ok, let's dive into git. Installing Git Open your terminal and type git --version this is …

Tools You’ll Need…

When you have the right tools, that's half the job done. Don't know who said the quote but I agree. Welcome back! These are the tools we are going to be using throughout this blog ; Mac - unfortunately for iOS you need a MacBook. Swift - this is the coding language for creating iOS …