Create Tappable Content Within the IGLabel (Obj-C) Torrey Betts / Wed, Apr 6, 2016 What is the IGLabel? The IGLabel is an iOS control for creating rich text labels. It works similarly to the generic UILabel and applies styles to text in a similar fashion that is done when using...
Create a Side Menu using NucliOS Torrey Betts / Fri, Oct 31, 2014 Introduction Side menus are a common UI pattern found in iOS apps. With the release of NucliOS 2014 Volume 2, we included a side menu control that makes it simple to add a side menu to any view...
NucliOS - What's New in 2014.2 Torrey Betts / Thu, Oct 30, 2014 Introduction The 2014 Volume 2 release of NucliOS is packed full of new controls and features to help you easily create stunning apps using Xcode or Xamarin.iOS. Without further ado, the following...
iOS Quick Tip: Find the Size of a NSString Stephen Zaharuk / Tue, Jun 24, 2014 When writing an app, you sometimes comes across situations where you need to adjust the position and size of a label based on the size of the text. And that size could be different based on a particular...
iOS Quick Tip: Create a UILabel Where Each Letter in the String is a Different Color Stephen Zaharuk / Tue, Jun 17, 2014 In iOS 6, Apple introduced the NSMutableAttributedString class. Along with it, all of their UIViews which previously exposed a text property, now expose an "attributedText" property. Recently I was working...
iOS - Objective-C - Advanced: Creating a Class at Runtime Stephen Zaharuk / Tue, Jun 10, 2014 Yes, this may be an edge case, but it is a problem that you may run into one day. For example, say you're writing an App that requires you to accept any sort of random json or xml. While you could just...
Passing Data Between View Controllers (iOS Obj-C) Torrey Betts / Thu, May 29, 2014 Introduction When designing an app that makes use of multiple view controllers it may become necessary to pass data back and forth between the view controllers. This common occurance will be...
iOS Quick Tip: Split a UIImage into Multiple Parts Stephen Zaharuk / Tue, May 27, 2014 Given a UIImage, in some cases you may want to have the image split. For example, say you wanted to create a Flipboard or Paper like interface, where you have a screen shot of a UIVIew, and you want to...
iOS - Objective-C - Downloading Data using NSURLSession Stephen Zaharuk / Wed, May 21, 2014 Previously, I talked about downloading data using NSURLConnection . That method works great, however, in iOS 7 Apple introduced a different way of downloading data, which also allows downloading while...
iOS - Objective-C - Downloading Data using NSURLConnection Stephen Zaharuk / Thu, May 15, 2014 In this always connected cloud based world we live in today, i'm willing to bet that the App you're currently working on, needs to download some sort of data. Whether it be files from some type of cloud...