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  • /** Customizing View Modifiers in SwiftUI */

    At some point in your SwiftUI developer journey, you will come across the line “You can simply do this using a custom view modifier and …”. There are many Stack Overflow and GitHub sample code snippets floating around with modifiers for various views. In this post, I will cover this topic along with a couple…

  • /** Customizing moreNavigationController */

    /** Customizing moreNavigationController */

    An iPhone application can display a maximum of 5 tabs at once. If your application has more than 5 tabs, the infamous moreNavigationController comes into play. This is a subclass of UINavigationController that displays a table of those tabs in a UITabBarController that are not visible on the bottom bar because, well, the way I…

  • /** Core Plot – 2 : Making a Bar Plot */

    This is my second post on the Core Plot framework. In the first one, I talked about setting up your app to use this framework. In this one, I’ll show you how to make a simple bar plot. In the Project Navigator, right click (or ctrl + click) on your project’s yellow folder and create a…

  • /** Core Plot – 1: Getting Started */

    Recently, I had to use graphs in my iPad app and was told to check out the Core Plot framework. I found it hard to get much info initially and many of the tuts seemed outdated. So I thought I’d make some instead. Turns out once you get your head around it, Core Plot is…

  • /** Things to Know Before Learning Objective C */

    Hi guys! So I’ve been learning Objective C recently and most tuts are a bit confusing. When I learnt C++, it was from the ground up – it took a LOT of time but what I learnt 5 years ago is still fresh in my mind. I think it’s because the stronger your understanding of  the going-ons (or as I like to…

  • /** RSS feeds + XML Http Requests (HTTPClient) with Titanium Appcelerator */

    An XML HTTP Request (xhr) is nothing but a simple HTTP or HTTPS request to a web server to get a response from the server in either xml format or just plain text. There are many things one can do with this data. If the HTTP request was directed to an RSS (Really Simple Syndication)…