Month: December 2014
Getting Started with Realm Database for iOS
Welcome back! Best wishes for a safe and enjoyable upcoming holiday! As an iOS developer you’ll run into situations that require maintaining local data to help execute necessary tasks or improve user experience (especially when your app has no network connection). Almost every app you touch is being powered by a cloud solution that leans…
10 Practical Tips for iOS Developers Using Storyboards
Instead of a full-blown tutorial on how to create something with Storyboards, I’m going to cover highlight 10 things, in no particular order, that should help get you going. Storyboards are one of the areas I spend most of my time in. I’m a big fan of being able to visualize the app that I’m…
How to get started learning game development
I’ve been a fan of game development since I arrived at Kansas State University in 2005. In 2008 the world opened up to touch interfaces and the passion magnified immensely. I ended up building several small 2D games before jumping on a different path. Through the years I’ve learned that game development is no trivial…
Wouter de Bres on Vision, Fundraising, and Lovable Products
Wouter de Bres is a co-founder and designer at Gibbon, a platform that makes it incredibly easy to learn from individuals like you. With Gibbon you can curate content that you find on the web into a playlist(s) that people can learn from. Want to learn about CSS? Check out CSS for Superheros. How about…
Top 10 Most Common iOS Mistakes During Development
I’ve built dozens of apps since 2008 and have seen quite a few ways developers end up stumbling. They find themselves in an scary position of trying to fix the stumble, or, worse, they completely kill any chance of success. The following list is composed of iOS mistakes that I frequently see. Some of these…
Create a Cloud Backend for Your iOS App Using Parse
A vast majority of the apps you see on the store today are being powered by the cloud. Instagram is storing photos in the cloud. Facebook is managing all your data there. So is Reddit, Twitter, Amazon, and any other app that you can think of. That’s probably why you’re here. You’ve discovered that to…
When To Choose an iOS Backend Provider or Build Custom
So many mobile apps these days are much more than just a mobile app. They lean heavily on external resources that help to power the content delivered within. So, as a beginner, it doesn’t take long before you realize just how many apps need such a component. A question I often see is when it…