This article from the Big Nerd Ranch blog goes back to 2016, but it’s a great little rundown by Mark Dalrymple of #available, introduced back in Swift 2.0. Hi! I’m #available! Sometimes we just use language features like this and don’t really think about what’s going on under the hood when we use them, or perhaps …
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Handy Swift Resource: Hacking With Swift’s Auto Layout Cheat Sheet
This is a pretty great one-stop-shopping resource for Auto Layout by Paul Hudson. The Auto Layout cheat sheet – Hacking with Swift Auto Layout is a powerful tool for creating flexible, maintainable rules for your user interface. It can also be a real brain vortex if you’re unlucky – it’s something that makes hard things …
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How to Force Bluetooth Headphones to Use Internal Microphone in macOS
I love using my AirPods with my Mac. The problem is that—at least for me and some other users—macOS always selects the headphones’ microphone as the Input device when you connect your AirPods or other bluetooth headphones. Here’s a fairly quick and easy solution for dealing with this problem permanently.
When Worlds Collide: How to call complex Objective-C selectors from Swift
When developing in Swift, you will eventually need to interact with Objective-C APIs. Most of the time this is fine, and fairly straightforward to do using #selector. However, every once in a while you will need to invoke an Objective-C selector that you did not write (usually when the selector is part of the iOS …
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iOS Dev Break Episode 13: 2017 September Apple Event
The latest iOS Dev Break episode was released on September 13, 2017, but a new episode is coming soon! iOS Dev Break Episode 13: 2017 September Apple Event iOS Dev Break 013: Thoughts and comments for iOS developers about today’s Apple Event and launch of the iPhone X! IDB013: 2017 September Apple Event
Fixing Git SSH After Upgrading to macOS Sierra
Yes. I’m a latecomer to the Sierra game (due mainly to an audio hardware driver I had to wait on to be upgraded to Sierra, which finally was updated but probably won’t be updated to High Sierra…), and most developers have probably already run into this problem and have dealt with it accordingly. However, I …
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iOS Dev Break Episode 009: It Was A Very Googly Experience
The latest episode of iOS Dev Break has arrived! This one was recorded just before WWDC, and a new episode will be published shortly! It Was A Very Googly Experience – IDB009 | iOS Dev Break In this episode: The return of iOS Dev Break! Adventures with the Google Play Store, Swift 4 and the …
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Google Chrome Pro Tip: How to Merge Multiple Tabs from Two Google Chrome Windows
I have been wanting the ability to merge two window’s collections of tabs in Google Chrome for some time now, because moving one tab a time from one window to another is tedious at best. I thought I’d need an extension for it, but it turns out that you can already do it in Chrome …
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Video: Forward Swift 2016 – “How Hot Is My Coffee? Sensors, Core Bluetooth and Swift!”
Somehow I don’t think I broadcasted this when it was available so now seems a good a time as any… My Core Bluetooth talk from Forward Swift 2016, “How Hot Is My Coffee? Sensors, Core Bluetooth and Swift!” has been up since last year, but thankfully it’s still up! Evan K. Stone: How Hot Is …
Video: Forward Swift 2017 – “What’s this React Native Thing I Keep Hearing About?”
Here’s the video for the talk on React Native I did for Forward Swift in March of 2017 in San Francisco! I’m very glad I didn’t have to wait until November for this one – the Forward Swift team has done an amazing job of getting out their videos in record time! Evan K. Stone: …