tvOS Games, Part 4: Bullets and Explosions
iOSIn Part 4 of our series on tvOS game development, we add the important stuff: Bullets! Explosions! Death! Carnage! We'll discover how to create...
tvOS Games, Part 3: Animations
iOSIn Part 3 of our series on tvOS game development, we add some animations to our sprites. Learn how to customize your own characters...
tvOS Games, Part 2: SpriteKit Goes Retro
iOSIn Part 2 of our series on tvOS game development, we begin laying out our game. In this instance, we've created a clone of...
tvOS Games, Part 1: Using the Game Controller Framework
iOSIf you want to write a game for tvOS, it starts with understanding what the controllers can do for you. In the first of...
Monetizing Your Apps with Apple’s In-App Purchases
iOSIt's hard monetizing your apps, and as much as Apple has done to make in-app purchasing (aka IAP) easy, it's still not easy. The...
Crowns and Sprites in WatchOS 3
iOSIt’s been a bit over a year since we got the Apple Watch, and right at a year since we got watchOS 2. Back then,...
WatchKit 2: Complications
iOSThere are a lot of nerds with a soft spot for (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horology). I tend towards chronographs; I love the extra functions for stopwatches, secondary...
WatchKit 2 Hardware Bits: The Accelerometer
iOSWhen Apple announced WatchKit 2, I shot over to the (http://developer.apple.com) and immediately began consuming whatever documentation I could find. There was something...
WatchKit 2 Hardware Bits: The Taptic Engine
iOSWhen I put up the draft of my (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/blog/watchkit-2-hardware-bits-using-the-digital-crown/) for internal review, my friends (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/about/the-team/mark-dalrymple/) and (https://nerdranchighq.wpengine.com/about/the-team/step-christopher/) both saw the little...
WatchKit 2 Hardware Bits: Using the Digital Crown
iOSWatchKit 2 allows code to run on the watch itself, rather than in the extension space on the phone. Running on the watch increases...
How to Build A WatchKit app in Three Hours
iOSIt was a Friday, and my pals Mikey and Step had been tasked with leading a WatchKit Hack Night the next week.
Get up and Running with iOS 8's CloudKit
iOSCloudKit gives you record-based, auto-replicating storage across all of your iOS and Mac devices. In this demo, I cover creating records, the push notification...
