URLSession has a great feature where you can download files while your app is in the background. In this article we’ll go over setting up your app to use this great little feature. We’ll focus on downloading files, but you can use the same principles for uploading files as well…. Read more »
Last week we talked about Realm Database and how to get started with it. This week we’ll dive in a bit deeper in Realm. Realm has a nice feature called ‘Synced Realms’. It’s a database that’s hosted in the cloud and in this article we’ll see how to set it… Read more »
Realm is an alternative to Core Data on iOS and it’s also cross-platform. In this blog post we’ll setup Realm Database for our little demo project and we’ll check out some basic features that you’ll end up using. Realm Database Sooner or later you’ll find yourself in a position where… Read more »
TwitterKit offers you loads of functionality: login, sharing, viewing your timeline… In this post we’ll learn how to setup your twitter app and start using TwitterKit. We’ll cover some basic use cases that you’ll most likely use, like login and sharing. So, let’s get going. Setting Up Your Twitter App… Read more »
If you have a free app and you’re thinking of ways you can monetize that app one of the most common ways is to put some ads in the app. In this article we’ll quickly go over how to set up AdMob and implement the three ad types they offer…… Read more »
Today widgets are small view controllers that your users can add to their ‘Today’ view. They are good for displaying the most relevant information to your users. In this article we’re going to create a today widget and display a latest article for the accompanying app for this blog. Let’s… Read more »
When I was setting up In-App purchases I never dreamed that I’d be spending so much time setting things up on iTunes Connect. Implementing it in the app was actually quite simple. In this article we’ll focus mainly on how to set everything up on your account. At the end… Read more »
Handoff is a great way for your users to resume an activity on any device. Let’s say your users start reading an article on an iPhone, they can easily continue reading it right where they left off on the iPad, or even on the mac. In this article, we’ll see… Read more »
If you ever needed to share data between your iOS apps and/or your application targets, there’s a very easy way to do this using app groups. In this post we’ll see how to share data between two apps and we’ll even build a small library that will make sharing of… Read more »
If you need to know when a file has been modified, renamed, deleted… there’s an easy way to do it using dispatch sources. In this post, we’ll create a simple library that will notify you when a file has been changed. I know I say this every time, but I’ll… Read more »
