Use TensorFlow and BNNS to Add Machine Learning to your Mac or iOS App
iOS MacShould you use BNNS or TensorFlow to add artificial intelligence to your iOS or Mac app? The answer is... both.
Dude, Where’s my Call?
iOS MacImagine that one day you're feeding some innocuous looking code to a Swift compiler, and then you get a smackdown of an error. Where'd...
Video: Cross-Platform Game Templates in Xcode 8
iOSIt’s been possible to write cross-platform SpriteKit code, but you had to build all the boilerplate yourself. The new Xcode 8 Beta 3 includes...
tvOS Design: Use Case Considerations
Design iOSDesigning meaningful products for Apple TV requires taking into account many more additional factors than when designing for a mobile device. To prepare for...
Hannibal #selector
iOS MacThe `selector` is key to Objective-C's dynamic runtime nature. It's just a name that's used, at runtime, as a key into a dictionary of...
Neural Networks in iOS 10 and macOS
iOS MacApple has been using machine learning in their products for a long time—Siri answers our questions and entertains us, iPhoto recognizes faces in our...
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,...
WWDC 2016: Increased Safety in Swift 3.0
iOS MacSwift 3.0 changes the semantics of `ImplicitlyUnwrappedOptional`, and is even safer than its previous incarnations. What has changed in Swift 3.0 for this type...
WWDC 2016: A Quick Look at APFS
iOS MacWWDC 2016. New Notification Center features? Eh. Bouncy sticker graphics giant emoji in Messages? Blah. New file system? ...
WWDC 2016: Developer Reading List
iOS MacWith the advent of WWDC comes a lot of new information. Don't want to wait for the WWDC 2016 videos? Start with our list...
WWDC 2016: Continued Maturation, More Monetization
Clients iOS MacAs I type, Apple's yearly developer conference, (https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/live/), is in full swing. The keynote can be watched via Apple TV and their website,...
Creating a Custom XCTest Assertion
iOS Leveling Up MacApple's bundled test framework XCTest provides a very limited, general collection of assertions. These get the job done much of the time, but sometimes...
