Category: Code

When you’re building an app, it’s often necessary to retrieve data from an external API. Perhaps you’re making the next great sports app, and you need to retrieve updated scores. …

It’s time for the exciting conclusion of our Firebase chat app tutorial! In Part 3, we equipped our app to handle push notifications. We’re still restricted to sending them out …

If you’ve been following along with Part 1 and Part 2 of this tutorial, you now have a functional chat app with a Firebase backend. Next, we’re going to set-up …

In Part One of this tutorial, we set-up an Xcode project and integrated Firebase using CocoaPods. Now it’s time to build the core chat functionality of our app! Open up …

People love to send texts. The Messages app is quite possibly the most used app on your iPhone. Lots of companies incorporate chat into their own apps as well—think one-on-one …

In part 1, we set up Cocos2d-x. Part 2, saw us create a functional pong game. In part 3, we optimized images and created a richer gameplay. This tutorial will begin …

In part 1, we set up Cocos2d-x on our computer. In part 2, we created a functional pong game. This tutorial will begin where part 2 left off. Please visit …

As you spend more time developing apps, you accumulate a lot of useful reusable code. Whether you’re implementing Game Center (which is still alive and well!) or setting up in-app …

Note: Many of the “‑” used in the code examples are non-line breaking hyphens. If you are copying and pasting code into Xcode, you will get an error. These need …