Get more meaningful work done — Productivity has always been a desired trait, now, more so than ever. The goal is to become more efficient and get more things done in the same or less time. To help you increase your productivity, I want to share some tips that have helped me, and they should help…

Are you tired of using CoreData? If so, then learn how to use Realm with a code-along project — If you are an iOS Developer, you must have come across CoreData and used it for Data Persistence. To make CoreData work seamlessly, you need a good understanding of its APIs. I used CoreData a lot before, and I felt that it required a lot of context management and work…

Gratify your users with an attractive and engaging TableView Animation — Table views undoubtedly are one of the most used components in any iOS app. It’s used to display a single column of vertically scrolling content, divided into rows. Adding animations is a great way to engage the user, and at the same time, it makes your app look smooth and…

Create a stunning visual Stopwatch by using CoreAnimation and CAShapeLayers — CoreAnimations are great and it can be used upon the layers of your views, to provide a smooth animation to views and it’s subviews and it helps in beautifying you app and also it provides a consistent user experience. Here’s a definition of CoreAnimation from the Apple Developer Docs — …

Useful Extensions to make your development process swifter — Extensions in Swift are a blessing and it should be used in your iOS applications to speed things up. Here’s a definition of Extensions by Swift Programming Docs — Extensions add new functionality to an existing class, structure, enumeration, or protocol type. …

Welcome new users and reconnect with returning ones in style — User Onboarding is an essential process to welcome new users and greet the existing ones. It can be used as an opportunity to introduce the key features of your application. Since it’s the first screen that the user sees after opening the app, it’s crucial to keep the process simple…

Keep APIs in your application manageable and structured — Consuming APIs in your iOS application can be intimidating and though there are numerous ways to achieve the same, maintaining them can be a bit tricky and overwhelming. I have struggled to efficiently manage the code where the APIs were defined, as it kept getting longer every time for each…

Create a custom dialog box that can be used instead of the UIAlertController. Now I know that Apple provides the UIAlertController to show a dialog box with actions and everything, but it’s not customizable except the messages and the actions. …

Create a drop down selector in iOS using tableView that shows the user a range of choices instead of using the default UIPickerView. Table views in iOS are very powerful and it can be used to accomplish a wide variety of things. …