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Summary When recently starting to add an Apple Watch companion app to an existing iOS app, I wanted to get communication working between the phone and watch as fast as possible since the rest of the Apple Watch app’s functionality depended...

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Summary Want to see this kind of Swift website in action!? Check out the example website, and here is the Source code!

Summary A co-worker told me a while back that I should learn vim or emacs. When asked why, he noted that learning one of them would not only help me edit text files faster, which means editing code faster, but learning one would help me...

Summary I enjoyed attending both the try! Swift NYC and the droidconNYC conferences this year. Although my work consists mainly of iOS development, I consider myself to be a mobile developer as both platforms are great and are important!...

Summary There are different ways to access the camera on iOS devices. One simple way would be to use UIImagePickerController, which makes use of the stock system camera UI. This is useful if you want to quickly get up and running to take a...

Summary I love optionals as much as the next person, but optionals are overused. One common reason is that they are easy to throw at problems where an entity (class, struct, enum) may not exist (i.e., nil). Then over time, we conflate the...