WWDC Minor Predictions
Some very minor predictions of mine for WWDC17 There will be barrels of Odwalla juice again. I haven’t been to WWDC in a few years due to coming up empty on the lottery –...
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The tvOS long press
If you’d like to detect a long press on a UIButton or just for a view that has no buttons – it’s pretty easy. There is one simple gotcha, however. You’ll trigger your selector...
WWDC 17 Packing List
It’s almost time for WWDC17, this year in San Jose, CA instead of San Francisco. I haven’t been in several years because my lottery skills are obviously lacking. I managed to score one this...
Getting hour offsets for local time versus a target time zone in Swift
I am currently working on something that will display time in different time zones. However, you need to compare the user’s current time versus those at the target time zones to be accurate. This...
Creating a tvOS parallax UIButton
If you’ve been involved in tvOS application development, or you’re new to the whole process, you might find this post interesting in regards to user interface. I have recently been involved in tvOS dabbling....
Richer text for UILabels
This post is silly simple, but in the past, I remember doing things like this using Ranges. You have a 2-line UILabel and you want a bold font for the first line, and then...
A curiosity on Chapel Street in Blackpool, U.K.
I’ve never been to Blackpool, and according to Ian Anderson, it’s not the nicest place to visit. That said, I was listening to “Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull (Live)” and when “Up...
Returning data from an async network operation in Swift
If you’re ever using asynchronous network operations (say GET or POST) and want to return data when calling a method, you’ll quickly understand that it’s not so easy. But you’ll see below how you...
UILabel centered text – getting the text’s rect
I recently had a section of user interface where I had a UILabel that took up an iPhone’s full width. It contained text which would be dynamic over time, meaning that the text would...
Keeping your developer castle organized
A little bit about how I work. There are a few important things I do while working on any project. I document design and development decisions in my personal customized wiki. I work with...
