Ever since the catchphrase “There’s an app for that” played on a television commercial, there’s been a strong and growing interest in creating mobile apps, especially for Apple and iOS devices. Mobile apps are used by hundreds of millions of users per day, with more than 100 million iPhone users estimated to exist in the United States alone. As a developer, this has come with its own set of positives and negatives. Developing for several mobile platforms can be a pain, but if you’re looking to deploy across Android, Apple, and others, frameworks such as React Native and Ionic exist to lighten ..read more

Machine learning is great, but it can be hard to implement in mobile applications. This is especially true for people without a data science degree. With Core ML, however, Apple makes it easy to add machine learning to your existing iOS app. Learn how to use the all-new Create ML platform for training lightweight, custom neural networks. At a Glance What Is Machine Learning? Machine learning is the use of statistical analysis to help computers make decisions and predictions based on characteristics found in that data. In other words, it's the act of having a computer parse a stream of data to ..read more

Continuing our series on Firebase, in this post we'll take a look at Firebase Cloud Messaging—or FCM for short—Google’s low-latency message and notification orchestration service for mobile apps.  For as long as iPhones have been around, push notifications have played a crucial role in notifying users at predetermined times of important events, whether a notification of a Skype message or call, a direct message on Twitter, or gaming alerts. Through carefully crafted, segmented push notifications, marketers have boosted app engagement and user retention. You can do the same ..read more

Creating your own iOS app may seem intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be. Today, there are a plethora of courses available at Envato Tuts+ that can help you through every step of app development.  So if you’ve been thinking of making the leap to creating your own iOS apps, you should check out these eight courses.  1. Create iOS Apps With Swift Swift is a programming language from Apple that is specifically designed for creating iOS, macOS, and watchOS apps. If you want to learn iOS app development, you need to learn Swift. And the first stop to learn Swift programming is the Crea ..read more

Swift is one of the fastest-growing languages in history, due to its elegance, simplicity, and “safety by design”. In fact, Swift’s official mantra is “to make programming simple things easy, and difficult things possible”. In this post, you'll learn how to use Swift to its fullest by refactoring your code. While a lot of the code optimization is implicit and obviously inherent in the language’s design, there are certain refactoring strategies that can make your code more readable, more reliable, and better performing. In this article, you will learn eight ways to refactor your code with Swif ..read more

What You'll Be Creating Since Apple first introduced Swift as the successor to Objective-C, it has revolutionized how the community codes iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS apps. When Swift became an open-source platform, it opened new possibilities for the language beyond mobile and client-side apps—Swift became a server language too! In this tutorial, you'll learn what server-side Swift is and why you would want to have Swift on your back-end.  The server-side Swift initiative is being pushed by three prominent projects—Vapor by Qutheory, IBM’s Kitura, and Perfect—with the goal of ..read more

We are in an era of rapid prototyping. We may get bright ideas, but sometimes they don't get implemented if they take too much work. Often, the back-end is the limiting factor—many ideas never get implemented due to lack of knowledge or time for server-side coding. As a mobile developer, using a back-end as a service (BaaS) platform can help you swiftly implement your ideas. Firebase has all the key features you need for rapid prototyping and quickly testing out your ideas. Using Firebase, you can shortcut the creation of functionality like authentication, database, a ..read more

Apple has been working on augmented reality for the last couple of years, and this year, at WWDC18, Apple released their latest version of their AR framework: ARKit 2. This year's release is jam-packed with new features, and in this article, we'll look at what's new in ARKit 2. At a Glance Before we dive into the changes, let's take a moment to review what ARKit actually is. ARKit is a framework which allows developers to create immersive augmented reality apps for iOS devices. With this framework, developers no longer need expensive hardware for realistic AR, but instead, they just need the ..read more

Do you want to create a news app that gives users only what's relevant to them? In an age of information overload, news apps are the perfect solution to help people cut through the daily noise and get to the news they really want.  Whether you’re interested in building a news app from posts on your own website, creating an app for a localized news source, or pulling together all major news sources into one handy app, there’s an iOS news app template for you. This modern news app Swift template for iOS is available on CodeCanyon. The best news app templates organize news into a few broad ..read more

Building an app used to be the domain of hardcore developers only, but with over 2,500 iOS app templates for sale at CodeCanyon, even complete beginners to coding can build an app. That's because an app template gives you the complete source code to a working iPhone app, with key functions already implemented. Just add features to create the product you want! Many beginners use app templates as a learning tool to improve their coding skills, while others choose to upload their new app creations to iTunes for approval and inclusion in the app store. CiyaShop is one of the many ..read more