iOS Development Tutorials

iOS 10 has added the UIViewPropertyAnimator providing a much cleaner syntax for creating UIView animations, adding an animation curve and allowing you to start and stop animations.

Here’s a tutorial from Yari D’areglia providing a nice overview of UIViewPropertyAnimator. The topics covered include:

• An overview of the different animation states
• Setting up basic animation options
• Creating animation blocks for more complex animations
• Interacting with the animation flow

You can find UIViewPropertyAnimator on the Think and Build It site.

A nice straightforward guide to using the UIViewPropertyAnimator class.

NSJSONSerialization allows you to easily convert an NSArray or NSDictionary to JSON, but does not work directly with Swift structs.

Emil Loer has written a nice tutorial about how you can quickly convert a Swift struct to JSON by using a protocol and the Swift Reflections compatible with NSJSONSerialization , and also how you can easily go a step further so that you can easily serialize data types that are not supported by NSJSONSerialization such as NSDate.

You can find the tutorial over on the Codelle website.

A nice guide on how you can use Swift features to very cleanly convert Swift structs to JSON.

Lazy variables and Lazy sequences are important features of the Swift language for those looking to optimize resource usage.

Crunchy development have written a nice in-depth tutorial providing a number of examples showing when one would use, and also how to use them. The tutorial does a nice job of pointing out some tricks involving these features.

You can find the tutorial over on the Crunchy Development blog.

A nice tutorial on “being lazy” with Swift.

Here’s a nice guide from Hector Matos called “Hipster Swift” that nicely explains some features of Swift code that you may often find when looking through someone else’s code, but may not fully understand.

The topics covered in the tutorial are:

– @noescape
– @autoclosure
– inline lazy vars
– currying
– variadic parameters
– the dynamic keyword
– special literals
– loop labels

You can find the tutorial over on the KrakenDev website.

A nice guide for to some of the more obscure Swift features.