iOS

API for Mobile Apps in Simple Words

API for Mobile Apps in Simple Words

At present, the industry of IT is one of the most rapidly developed. The process of development is always accumulation of a great amount of knowledge, which must continuously be generalized and systematized.

RxAnimated - Animated Bindings

RxAnimated - Animated Bindings

RxAnimated — is a library for RxSwift/RxCocoa released in 2017, but can still be helpful for animation implementations. It provides the animated interface for bindings in RxCocoa. The library is supplied with several predefined animations for binding and offers a flexible mechanism for adding custom animations and using them during binding in RxCocoa.

iOS Design Patterns

iOS Design Patterns

In this article, we will cover iOS patterns. Some of them will be considered in details, another ones will be shortly described, and others won’t be included at all.

How to Integrate Apple Pay in Mobile App

How to Integrate Apple Pay in Mobile App

During the presentation on the 9th of September 2014, Apple introduced Apple Pay — its own system of mobile payments. Apple pay allows iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+ users, as well as those who have new versions of Apple Watch easily shop online now

Hello CoreData!

Hello CoreData!

Today we will review framework under the terrible name CoreData, from Apple. I hate it so much. This is Apple's solution to work with SQLite (a relational database). CoreData can store Swift objects in SQLite, and also it can perform the reverse operation.

Animation In IOS: Native Solutions And Third-Party Frameworks

Animation In IOS: Native Solutions And Third-Party Frameworks

Today we will take a look at a couple of quite simple examples, learn about pros and cons of what Apple has to offer in terms of animation and get ourselves familiar with some third-party frameworks I personally find to be quite useful for handling animation. I will also show you how to use UIKit Dynamics and Motion Effects available starting from iOS 7.

Beyond MVC: How to Use MVVM in iOS

Beyond MVC: How to Use MVVM in iOS

Today we’re going to talk about MVVM pattern. We will discuss its advantages in comparison to MVC and take a look at two implementation examples, a small and a big one. You will be able to use the latter in your work as an example of a good architecture for almost any MVVM project. So, let’s start with the basics :)

iOS 6 Google Maps integration

iOS 6 Google Maps integration

When developing an iOS application for automotive project http://megasos.com we faced the need for Google Maps integration in iOS. It turned to be not quite as trivial for starting from iOS 6.0 version Apple removed Google Maps from the default set of applications. Standard MapKit has also been completely redesigned and adapted to work with a new Apple mapping service.