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Creating a custom loading animation with PaintCode and Swift

In this tutorial we’ll go over creating a simple loading animation, using PaintCode, Xcode 7.x and Swift 2.0 PaintCode is a very useful little program and could potentially save you a ton of time.

SpriteKit Game From Scratch, Swift 2.0, part 1 – Workout Apps

(Image credit: Prostock Studio/Shutterstock) Get one of the best workout apps loaded up on your smartphone, and it doesn’t matter if you’re at the gym or working out at home — the right app can get you started on a healthier lifestyle. Most of the apps we’ve looked at help you exercise where you are, […]

Creating a HUD for your Sprite Kit Game

Creating a HUD for every game is vital. It’s a bit tricky when you are adding UI Elements to Sprite Kit and there are also a few different ways of doing it. Here is one of the ways and so far my favorite. It’s very flexible and it will allow you to easily customize your […]

Setting up backgrounds for UIView

There are different ways of setting up backgrounds in Swift, depending on the object, method, background type etc. We will go through some of these here. Setting up a background image for a UIView:

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "myImage.png"))

1	self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "myImage.png"))

Replace “myImage.png” with the name of your image. Note: Make sure you add your images to the Bundle first. To […]

Contacts App / Inventory with Archiving 2.0

Hi, all Here is the updated version of the Contacts app with archiving. It will now let you save and load multiple contacts. I am just going to list some of the new things added. Here are the previous and next buttons on the Load View screen:

@IBAction func previousPressed(sender: AnyObject) { // PREVIOUS BUTTON
        
        if index == 0 {
            index = inventory.itemArray.count - 1
            
        } else {
        index--
        }
        println("index: (index)")
        indexLabel.text = "(index + 1)"
        loadItem(inventory.itemArray[index])
        changePlaceHolderText()
        
    }

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@IBAction func previousPressed(sender: AnyObject) { // PREVIOUS BUTTON

if index == 0 {

index = inventory.itemArray.count - 1

} else {

index--

}

println("index: (index)")

indexLabel.text = "(index + 1)"

loadItem(inventory.itemArray[index])

changePlaceHolderText()

}

@IBAction func nextPressed(sender: AnyObject) { // NEXT BUTTON
        
        if index >= inventory.itemArray.count - 1 {
            index = 0
        } else {
            index++
        }
        println("index: (index)")
        indexLabel.text = "(index + 1)"
        loadItem(inventory.itemArray[index])
        
        changePlaceHolderText()
        
    }

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@IBAction func nextPressed(sender: AnyObject) { // NEXT BUTTON

if index >= inventory.itemArray.count - 1 {

index = 0

} else {

index++

}

println("index: (index)")

indexLabel.text = "(index + 1)"

loadItem(inventory.itemArray[index])

changePlaceHolderText()

}

Here are the […]