44 posts tagged with "iOS"

If you’re an iOS developer with advanced skills who has gone through a lot of iOS projects, you will surely know that choosing a suitable design pattern is extremely important. It helps your project run smoothly and become more readable, flexible and reusable. In more than 20 Mobile App Templates, we have carefully considered all the most popular iOS design patterns.

Adding a map to an iOS app is a widely spread feature. Maps make mobile apps more interactive and improve the user experience tremendously. In our mobile app templates, we integrated maps in several apps, such as in the Store Locator, Classifieds App, or Real Estate app. In this MapKit tutorial, we are describing our experience of working with MapKit to help you learn how to add maps to your iOS app in Swift.

Almost any iOS app has a search feature. In fact, all of our functional iOS UI Kits have a search functionality. To this point, we’ve decided to write this Swift tutorial on UISearchController, walking you through building a search feature for your iOS app in Swift. Our app templates have more complex searching logic, since they are hooked to Firebase backend, which is where the searchable data is being retrieved from. For the purpose of this tutorial, we’ve simplified the UISearchController, to simply display a search bar in the navigation bar, by relying on static data, rather than data generated by a server.

Developing an iOS application is still about passing data between objects, but the ecosystem has more modern, safer tools than it did in 2019. In addition to delegates, notifications, closures and KVO, you now have Combine and Swift Concurrency (async/await) which simplify asynchronous flows and composition.

It’s extremely common for a mobile app to support dynamic features such as user management and user-generated content, like social posts, photo uploads, or private messages. To build this functionality, an iOS developer will need a web backend that acts as a central database and serves data to the iOS client. To choose the best backend for your iOS app there are a few things to consider right from the start. Luckily, in most of the cases, the decision is simple: use Firebase.

While working on our newly launched Dashboard iOS app template, we had to figure out how to add a padding to the placeholder of a UITextField control. It turned out there’s no native support for this design tweak, so we had to create our own subclass of UITextField.

For tech entrepreneurs, who own online businesses about news, building a news reader iOS app has never been more rewarding, in terms of growing and retaining their audiences. Empowering your readers with a mobile app for their favorite news website is powerful. It's hard to imagine a better way of increasing user retention. On top of that, with the latest tools that are available for building mobile apps, creating a presence in the App Store has never had a greater return on investment.

Worldwide, 60% of all the websites are built with WordPress. Clearly, WordPress is the most popular content management system. This makes it a good fit for the backend systems of native mobile apps, especially if you already have a WordPress website and you'd like to deliver a native experience to your users, by converting it into a native app.