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Adding an iOS Launch Screen to Your App in Swift - iOS Tutorial

· 5 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on October 15, 2020

In this detailed tutorial, we are taking a look at how you can add and customize an iOS launch screen in your iOS app and why it's important to take your launch screen design seriously. The task itself is not difficult, and I'll assume you are writing your iOS app in Swift, using Xcode.

Note: If you come from an Android/React Native background, you might have used "splash screen" to describe this app starting screen. Apple prefers "Launch Screen", which is what we're going to use in this article.

ViewBuilder and ViewModifier: Base Views and Reusable Components in SwiftUI - iOS Tutorial

· 5 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on February 10, 2020

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Hey everyone, in this article, we are going to learn how to build custom reusable components with ViewModifier, and how to create base views with ViewBuilder. These are powerful mechanisms to implement gorgeous design systems that are consistent across the entire app and that encourage code reusability and good architectural patterns.

How to Use Camera and Library to Take Photos in SwiftUI - iOS Tutorial

· 6 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on February 5, 2020

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Hello, welcome back to our SwiftUI tutorials series. In this article, we are going to learn how to use the photo camera and library picker in SwiftUI to take photos within our iOS apps – a feature that nearly every mobile application needs nowadays, especially with the latest iPhone release, that has 3 cameras!

How to Integrate UIKit with SwiftUI

· 4 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on September 2, 2019

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When you start developing with SwiftUI, you will reach certain points during development where you would like to use some APIs from UIKit. In order to integrate UIKit with SwiftUI, you can use one of two protocols – UIViewControllerRepresentable and UIViewRepresentable. We will soon be migrating all of our iPhone app templates (currently running on UIKit) to SwiftUI, so having them use both UIKit and SwiftUI as a transition state during migration will be a huge advantage in order to not block our customers who are willing to take a stab at SwiftUI early on (even if we don’t recommend it yet!).

Introduction to SwiftUI And The Future of iOS Development

· 11 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on August 8, 2019

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SwiftUI is a newly released framework to help iOS developers build user interfaces across all Apple platforms with the power of Swift. SwiftUI has been launched at WWDC 2019 and has been increasing in popularity exponentially ever since. SwiftUI addresses the major pain points that iOS engineers were facing with building interfaces, and for these reasons, SwiftUI is the future of front-end development on iOS. We are making a quick introduction to SwiftUI to highlight its simplistic yet powerful paradigm.

Stripe Payment Integration with Firebase in Swift

· 13 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on July 25, 2019

Any business that is developing an e-commerce application will certainly consider Stripe when it comes to processing payments. Stripe provides an awesome library that instantly enables users to use their mobile phones for online payments. Stripe SDK has increased in popularity tremendously in the last 5 years, and it represents our preferred payment processor in our app templates. Integrating Stripe Firebase in iOS is extremely powerful, but quite challenging, which is the reason why we have written this tutorial.

The Best Budgeting Apps for Personal Finance in 2020

· 13 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on January 29, 2026

It’s hard to believe, but we’re halfway through 2026. For those of you that made the New Year’s resolution to do a job of saving money and your budgeting – how’s that going? If the answer is not great, fear not. In this article, we’ve compiled a great list of best personal finance apps for your Android, IOS and web-based devices to help you better understand and monitor your financial picture and also help improve your financial strength. Our goal was to capture the best budgeting apps, for both iPhone & Android devices, that can be used for personal finance as well as book-keeping for businesses.