In this series, we're learning how to use SpriteKit to build 2D games for iOS. In this post, we'll continue our exploration of SpriteKit nodes, and learn...

This is the first of three articles on securing user data at rest. In this post, we'll start off with the basics of protecting data on iOS so you can learn...

In this video tutorial from my course Go Further With Swift, you'll see how to start adding some animation to an app with Swift. We'll begin with...

Enumerations are a common design pattern in many programming languages. While you may be familiar with enumerations in C and Objective-C, Swift's...

SpriteKit is Apple's 2D game framework for iOS. In this post, we'll take a look at Nodes—the fundamental building block of SpriteKit.

In the previous lessons of Swift From Scratch, we created a functional to-do application. The data model could use some love, though. In this final lesson,...

In the previous lesson, we added the ability to create to-do items. While this addition has made the application a bit more useful, it would also be...

In this post, I'll introduce you to SpriteKit, Apple's 2D game framework for iOS. We'll start with the basics, and later on I'll show you how to use some of...

In the previous lesson, you created your first Swift project in Xcode, a simple to-do application. In this installment of Swift From Scratch, we're going to...

While playgrounds are a great tool to play with Swift and learn the language, it's time to move on and create our first Swift project in Xcode. In this...

In this tutorial you'll create a blackjack game in SpriteKit using Swift 3. You'll learn about implementing touch, creating visual animations, and many other...

Many developers resort to bad practices like the singleton pattern when they need to share state between view controllers in an iOS app. In this tutorial,...