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Frustrated with your UI and Auto Layout? Download the best practices PDF and leverage these time saving strategies so you can spend more time coding apps.

Frustrated with your UI and Auto Layout? Download the best practices PDF and leverage these time saving strategies so you can spend more time coding apps.

Xcode 10 is a fantastic update to an already great piece of software for developing and debugging apps. Xcode allows you to easily create an iPhone or a Mac apps.

Apple's 2018 announcement was the BEST announcement from Apple since Steve unveiled the iPhone (and iPad). Not only did it make me feel human and LAUGH, but it unveiled what Apple has been hard at work on for the past few years. The...

Is Spotlight broken? Can't find the app, document, or photo you want using Spotlight on your Mac? You can fix it in 5 seconds using Terminal.

Is Spotlight broken? Can't find the app, document, or photo you want using Spotlight on your Mac? You can fix it in 5 seconds using Terminal.

How to get a refund for Mac App Store purchases and in-app purchases isn't clear, but it is possible in 2-7 days! You can request a refund directly from Apple.

I couldn't make iPhone apps or coffee without these tools!

Learn how to start using the Pomodoro method as a developer, and leverage 6 free and paid apps for your Mac to track your first Pomodoro to improve your productivity.

Follow along with a CocoaPods tutorial that will show you how to setup Cocoapods for the first time using Xcode 9 and Swift 4. What are CocoaPods? Cocoapods is a system that helps you create the Xcode project (Workspace) that can include...

Follow along with a CocoaPods tutorial that will show you how to setup Cocoapods for the first time using Xcode 9 and Swift 4. What are CocoaPods? Cocoapods is a system that helps you create the Xcode project (Workspace) that can include...

Enable your design team to tweak your iPhone app UI with IBDesignable elements that you can drag-and-drop onto your Storyboard user interfaces.

If your iPhone app crashes on launch with Xcode, you might have a code signing issue that you need to fix. The codesign process has changed since iOS 8.

Creating software is a journey and today I'd like to talk about the importance of beta testing (and usability testing). Over the past three months we've been working on the next version of our timer app. It's very basic. So simple that...

Creating software is a journey and today I'd like to talk about the importance of beta testing (and usability testing). Over the past three months we've been working on the next version of our timer app. It's very basic. So simple that...

How much Auto Layout and iPhone UI design do you know? The only way to improve is to understand what you don't know. Take the Auto Layout Quiz and see how many points you can get! A perfect score is 30 . . . Start the Quiz (function() {...

Quickly add Auto Layout constraints using a mouse or Trackpad so that your UI can adapt to any iPhone screen size.

What is Auto Layout? Auto Layout is a tool from Apple that enables you to create user interfaces that adapt to the different screen sizes of iPhone and iPad devices (and Mac too!). It's like responsive web design, but it provides more...

Learn how to use the App Store to discover ideas for new apps that already make money. Discover the creative process from idea to app.