How to Make a Simple iPhone Game with Gestures
Apple makes it easy to recognize gestures on iPhone and iPad. Today, we’re going to make a game that detects taps, pinches, and swipes. Much like the classic game Bop …
A Beginner iOS Tutorial: Choose your Date Destination Part 2
In Part 1 of this beginner iOS tutorial, we created the basic shell of our app to select random date locations. It’s a functional app, and you can bust it …
A Beginner iOS Tutorial: Choose your Date Destination Part 1
This will be a very simple native iOS app tutorial geared toward beginners. I’ll assume you have no experience making apps, so this should be approachable for everyone. This will …
Making a Pong Game with Cocos2d-x Part 1
One of the best ways to learn programming and game development is to start making a basic game on your own. Pong is the first game that I ever made, …
Objective-C and Swift: Their History and Where iOS Development is Going
There are two native programming languages for iOS—Objective-C and Swift. This becomes abundantly clear as soon as you start your first project in Xcode. After pressing to create a new …
Protecting Your Code with Fail-Safes
When programming, it is really important to put fail-safes into your code to deal with potential errors. This is code that would serve no purpose if everything executes exactly like …