Top Ten Most Popular Posts Of 2017

The beginning of the year is a good time to look back, so I put together a list of the ten most popular posts of 2017. The ranking is based on the number of page views.

#1: UITableView – Tutorial For Beginners

UITableView is one of the most important user interface components on iOS. In this tutorial you will learn all the basics you need to know.

#2: UITableView: Automatic Row Height

Very often the content of an UITableView is dynamic – and so is the length of the content. In this case you need table view cells, that have different sizes. You could calculate these sizes manually, but that’s a little bit cumbersome. Instead, you can use automatic row height.

#3: Passing Data Between View Controllers

Passing data between view controllers is a very common task. Depending on the circumstances, there are several ways to accomplish this.

#4: Xcode: Frameworks

By using frameworks you can share code between multiple projects – a huge productivity boost! In this post you will learn how you can create a framework and how you can use it in your projects.

#5: The 10 Best Productivity Apps on iOS

iOS has become an operating system that is not only great for consuming content, but for productivity as well. Of course you need the right apps though. Here’s a list of my favorite productivity apps

#6: An Introduction To Extensions

iOS has always been a very secure operating system. In order to achieve that, apps are running in its own container. In the beginning of the iPhone it wasn’t possible for an app  to communicate with other apps at all. Luckily, this has changed over the years. In iOS 8 Apple has introduced so-called extensions which allow an app to provide functionality in another context.

#7: 3D Touch Quick Actions

Quick actions have been introduced with the iPhone 6S. When you force touch an app icon, a menu will be presented. You can use it, to quickly access a certain part of the app or to trigger an action.

#8: 3D Touch: Peek And Pop

Besides quick actions, peek and pop is another very interesting 3D Touch feature. By using it you can quickly preview content, for example emails or websites.

#9: Merge Sort In Swift

There are a lot of sorting algorithms. In this post we will take a look at implementing merge sort in Swift.

#10: Swift: Extensions

Like categories in Objective-C, extensions in Swift give you the opportunity to add functionality to a type. This is not only possible for your own types, but also for types for which you don’t have access to the source code.

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