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Making the UINavigation bar transparent & see through is easy with a few lines of code. I have setup a XCode project with a simple navigation controller as the root view controller of the default view. It looks like: To set the navigation bar to transparent simply add the following to viewDidLoad() override func viewDidLoad() […]

The storyboard in XCode is one of the main ways used to create layouts for apps. You can add labels, buttons and many other objects to the storyboard. Once on the storyboard to connect them up to your code you can do so via actions our outlets. What you will learn The difference between an […]

One of the very first questions you have after learning how to make iPhone apps is how to save and load data such as settings & preferences in your app. Well this post will cover how to achieve this using NSUserDefaults. What you will learn What NSUserDefaults is What types of data you should save […]

In this tutorial we will look at using the UIAlert controller to show pop up messages. First of all create a new xcode project, and add a button to your storyboard. Connect it up to ViewController.Swift with the action name as “showAlert”. Now that we have done that to show an alert add in the […]

In the last tutorial we looked at navigating view controllers in swift, in this one we are going to look at how to pass data when navigating to another view controller. To begin with create a new XCode single view application project, and layout the storyboard as follows: Create a navigation controller, linked to the […]

In this tutorial we will look at navigation in Swift, using segue’s and the navigation controller to navigate between different view controllers. To start off with we have created a new blank single view application and changed the Main.storyboard as follows: Add two new view controllers to the right of the default view controller Add […]

In this post we will look at how to make curved buttons / uibutton in Swift that look like: First of all in your XCode project add a button to the storyboard.  Once added connect it up to your ViewController (The default for a new project will be ViewController.swift). To this with the storyboard open […]

In our last Classes tutorial we looked at making a brand new Pet class in Swift, This post will look at how to make a subclass for this pet class, so we can extend it and override methods. You can download the source code from the post here to avoid having to start from scratch. Our […]

Today we are going to look at classes and how to use them in Swift. In this post we will be making a Pet class that has the properties Pet Name, and Number Of Legs the Pet has. From this we will then make a Dog Subclass that inherits the properties from the parent Pet […]

All tutorials on this website have been checked and updates for Swift 1.2 and XCode 6.3+, all the source code on the page and in the downloads has been updated also. If the tutorial had to be updated there will be an information box that looks like the following advising the post has been updated: […]