Bart Jacobs

While this tutorial focuses primarily on functions and closures, we take a brief detour at the end to explore protocols and access control. We'll be working...

Apple introduced the Swift programming language during its annual developer conference in 2014, much to he surprise of the developer community. The company...

Even though we've already learned quite a bit in this series on iOS development, I'm sure you are eager to start building iOS applications that do something...

Provisioning an application for testing on a physical device or for App Store distribution can be a nightmare for beginners. Every iOS developer has to...

Before we can start creating iOS applications, we need to set up the development environment. In this tutorial, I show you how to register as an Apple...

Before you begin building iOS applications, it is crucial that you first understand the ecosystem. This article examines the fundamentals of Apple's...

In the previous installments, we discussed batch updates and batch deletes. In this tutorial, we'll take a closer look at how to implement asynchronous...

Core Data is a framework I really enjoy working with. Even though Core Data isn't perfect, it's great to see that Apple continues to invest in the framework....

Even though Core Data has been around for many years on OS X and iOS, a feature that was added only recently are batch updates. Developers have been asking...

If you're developing a small or simple application, then you probably don't see the benefit of running Core Data operations in the background. However, what...

Earlier in this series, we created Done, a simple application to learn more about the NSFetchedResultsController class. In that project, we used key value...

In the previous articles of this series, we've encountered an annoying issue that we need to address. Whenever we modify the data model of a Core Data...