Be dynamic, just like life… — Table views and collection views have always been an integral part of iOS app development. We all might have came across various issues related to them. In this article, we’ll discuss one such problem statement related to collection views. Problem Statement Let’s assume we’ve a UICollectionView in a UITableViewCell and around 20…

Random is Good…🎳 — With the release of Swift 4.2, Apple introduced a new random API SE-0202 in swift’s standard library. Let’s look at the details on how we can use this API for different use-cases. 1. Random number from the given Range A random(in:) method is provided for each numeric data type, i.e. …

Copying an object has always been an essential part in the coding paradigm. Be it in Swift, Objective-C, JAVA or any other language, we’ll always need to copy an object for use in different contexts. In this article, we’ll discuss in detail how to copy different data types in Swift…

Pretty Little Alerts..🥁 — Notifications are a way to inform users when new data becomes available for their apps, even when the app is not running in the foreground. For example, a messaging app might let the user know when a new message has arrived, and a calendar app might inform the user of…

The details are not the details. They make the design. — Playing with Collection Views is so much fun and challenging. One of the things I came across is using gradients with collection views. Adding gradient to a UICollectionView or UICollectionViewCell is as simple as adding it to any other view. …

KEEP CALM and build your own colors 🍭 I’ve been working with iOS for quiet a long time now and believe me, building a nice-looking visual interface is must for an app to get accepted by a larger audience. Good design, colors, concept everything matters when building a great UI. …

With the release of iOS-11, Apple introduced Drag and Drop in UITableView and UICollectionView with a specialized API that works on the concept of Interactions (something like gestures). Table view and collection view have similar APIs to support drag and drop with some small differences. Drag and drop is supported…

Get rid of that hefty NSCoding code..!!!🤗 As we are all aware, to support encoding and decoding of instances in iOS, a class must adopt the NSCoding protocol and implement its methods: init(coder:) — Returns an object initialized from data in a given unarchiver. encode(with:) — Encodes the receiver using…

Everyone needs a good editor..!!!✂️ Since iOS 8, Apple has provided us with the provision to add our own customized actions to a UITableView’s rows using the UITableViewDelegate method — tableView(_:editActionsForRowAt:). tableView(_:editActionsForRowAt:) Asks the delegate for the actions to display in response to a swipe in the specified row. Use…