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Integrating Google Maps SDK into your iOS app is easy thanks to Cocoapods. Lets create a simple app to showcase this with your current location and some markers of Pokemon that might be lurking around the area if you were to play Pokemon Go! Setting up the project First of all create a new single […]

In this Swift quiz app tutorial we will look at making a iOS quiz. It might sound complicated and scary at first, but it’s actually quite simple. Lets start off by making a single view application. Our end will result will be a quiz app like this: Setting up the User Interface To start off […]

In our last post we looked at core graphics, what it is, why use it and how to draw a square and circle with it. In this post we are going to look at moving this drawing code to work with UIView. IF you haven’t already check out the last post and download the source […]

Core graphics is a lightweight framework used to make 2d graphics and animations. It runs extremely fast, and is very flexible in what it can do. Core graphics sets at a lower level then UIKit, this gives you more control, however it is more difficult to setup and requires more knowledge. Lets take a look […]

In this tutorial we will be making a Square button that animates into a circle, then back. This will be using core graphics and animation. The following is the result of this tutorial: Create a new single view application then go the ViewController.swift, this ones going to all be done in code! Add the following […]

Detecting a tap on a CAShapeLayer has changed from Swift 2. This tutorial will cover how you can detect a tap then run some code on the tap. First of all create a new single view application, and change the code to the following. It will add a square CAShapeLayer to our tutorial app. import […]