Andrew Bancroft is an experienced iOS developer and educator with over 15 years of experience. He shares tutorials, courses, and insights on Swift, SwiftUI, Core Data, and app development best practices.
203 articles from this blog
How to distinguish between multiple UIActionSheets in Swift using tags and enumerations for cleaner code.
An overview of Swift extensions using the 5 W's: who, what, when, where, and why, for adding functionality to existing types.
Tutorial on using MFMessageComposeViewController in Swift to send text messages in-app, with clean code architecture.
Quick guide on setting up Unity IOC container for ASP.NET MVC using NuGet and dependency injection.
Article encourages Swift developers to write about Swift, citing benefits like community growth, personal learning, and sharing unique knowledge.
Explains the Swift compiler error 'Variable used within its own initial value' when using recursive closures, with solutions.
A Swift tutorial on creating a UIView extension for 360-degree rotation animation with examples.
A tutorial on using NSNotificationCenter in Swift for iOS app communication, with code examples for Swift 2.3 and 3.0.
Explains the difference between Date and Date? (Nullable) in VB.Net and how ToString overloads differ.
Explores using Swift constants as an alternative to Objective-C #define macros for avoiding magic values in code.
Tutorial on implementing slide-in animations for UIViews in Swift using class extensions and CATransition.
A guide on checking iOS versions in Swift for backward compatibility with iOS 7 and iOS 8.
Tutorial on creating rich HTML documentation inside Swift Playgrounds for interactive learning experiences.
Learn how to replace magic strings with Swift enumerations for cleaner, type-safe code.
Exploring cleaner delegation patterns in iOS Swift by moving delegate responsibilities out of View Controllers.
Tutorial on using MFMailComposeViewController with Swift to send emails in iOS apps, covering setup, configuration, and delegate methods.
Expanded thoughts on Swift's type inference for clean coding, emphasizing making return types unambiguous.
Learn how to sort an array of integer strings numerically in Swift using the sorted function and a custom closure.
Explores when to use explicit type annotations vs. type inference in Swift for cleaner, more readable code.
A guide to writing clean functions in Swift, focusing on naming, parameter clarity, and decomposition for self-documenting code.
