15 July 2018 by Alberto Pasca on generic

Swift | macOS – How to make cool desktop apps using Cocoa

So, what I want to share today is how to make windows with cool UI in a macOS application written in Cocoa/Swift.

This an example of what you see when create a new project from scratch in XCode and run it:

25 June 2018 by Alberto Pasca on generic

Swift – Use generics [T] with closures

Let’s make an example to understand better the scope of this tutorial.

You want to:

increment all numbers in array by 1
double all numbers in array
check if the numbers in array are even or odd
multiply all numbers in array
more and more…

How many functions should you create to do this?

15 June 2018 by Alberto Pasca on generic

XCode – Add a file in project at build time

Imagine that you need to add a file in your XCode project the first time that you build the app.

For instance, you have a configuration file, in Swift, that you want to compile and embed in your app (instead of using a PLIST file that is in CLEAR…) during the build phase and of course use in your project.

8 June 2018 by Alberto Pasca on generic

Swift – Calculate Levenshtein distance

Ciao,

here a conversion on an old tutorial in Swift about the Levenshtein distance of two strings.

5 June 2018 by Alberto Pasca on generic

XCode ‐ Podfile with categories and multiple targets

Welcome back,

what I want to share is an ordered and readable Podfile.

The Podfile is a specification that describes the dependencies of the targets of one or more Xcode projects.

11 June 2017 by Alberto Pasca on generic

Arduino/iOS – Bike speedometer tracking using bluetooth

Scope of the project,
add a speedometer on my MTB to store and track the trip using only Bluetooth transmission, send data to iPhone and store to cloud for later data-analysis.

Used components:

digital display (controlled by the iOS app). Can show current speed (km/h), total km, current temperature, current humidity.
GPS module
bluetooth module
DHT sensor for temperature and humidity
Swift backend
mongoDB as database
Swift iOS App