We’ve all seen custom cameras in one form or another in iOS, but how can we make one ourselves? This tutorial is going to cover the basics, while at the same time talk about more advanced implementations and options. As you will soon see, options are plenty when it comes…

Signal processing — We’ve all seen audio visualization in one form or another, but how do we implement one in our Cocoa application? If you have little to no understanding of signal processing or audio in a digital format, this tutorial is perfect for you. This tutorial will help you navigate and understand…

Visualization of audio — Welcome back to part two. If you haven’t done part one, go do part one 😉 Audio Visualization In Swift Using Metal & Accelerate (Part 1) We’ve all seen audio visualization in one form or another, but how do we implement one in our Cocoa application?medium.com To recap what we did in the last part: We defined the project requirements, input, and output. The requirements were to use data markers from an audio signal to render visuals to the screen…

First off, yes, I was an iOS developer for the Royal Canadian Air Force (you know, the military one with planes). It was my second co-op term and I will now be finishing off my second year of undergrad in Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. The Royal Canadian Air Force Aerospace Warfare Centre Innovation Lab: Flight Deck That’s quite a…

Introduction to Apple’s Metal — Metal Shaders? Render Pipeline? Vertex Shaders? Fragment Shaders? If you were anything like me, these words and phrases are meaningless or confusing. This tutorial is meant to help you get an easy footing on how it all works and allow you to build off from there. Setup We’re going to be…

I’ve recently had a condensed 10 day experience with the playground development suite by working on my WWDC 2019 Student Scholarship application BeatMatch (check it out here). I will be using my project for the examples in this article. If you don’t know what a playground looks like on an…